Netscape could have produced this product. IBM could have produced this product to go with their advertising. Novell - well actually they have a competitive product but not with the Internet features. Microsoft did produce it and they are aggressively marketing it at a very competitive price. Right now small business provides more jobs and more real productivity than does the large business sector.
Small businesses are able to react and adjust far more rapidly than large enterprises.
This will become increasingly important in the near future as our world moves to a more global society. At present, most small businesses are not automated very well and many are not automated at all. Most still do not use the Internet. Many of those who have computers are harnessed to old software and equipment that actually inhibits productivity. This situation exists in part because small businesses simply do not have the resources available to employ a network administrator, an Internet web master, a database administrator, or the several other employees that large companies use to maintain these various resources.