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Tom Duff called it
Several weeks ago, I linkedto Tom Duff's comments regarding Microsoft's non-presencein the Lotusphere 2006 product showcase. At the time, we had lotsof voices from Redmond tell me that Lotus wasn't doing the right thingfor mutual customers, that the mission was around coexistence and interoperability,not migration. Two observations have been made in recentdays that seem to expose the trojan horse for what I said it was. First,Ben Langhinrichs noted that Microsoft seems to have a self-servingdefinition of the word "coexistence". Second, my blogdigger feeds today caught thisentry from Microsoft's James Conrad. He describes his new role at Microsoft, managing a team of evangelists. One mission in particular seems telling:Lotus NotesMigration (Gary Devendorf)That seems to settle that. Itdoes for Tom as well:But can we now officially cut the kumbaya crap about just wanting to helpus Domino developers out? Your job is evangelizing Notes migration. You work for Microsoft now, not Lotus. And if you representMicrosoft in any official capacity at an event, you also represent theirposition. Regardless of what you might want us to believe (or what*you* personally believe) otherwise... Richpicked this up on Yellowisthenewblack.comas well.
Several weeks ago, I linked
to Tom Duff's comments regarding Microsoft's non-presence
in the Lotusphere 2006 product showcase. At the time, we had lots
of voices from Redmond tell me that Lotus wasn't doing the right thing
for mutual customers, that the mission was around coexistence and interoperability,
not migration.
Two observations have been made in recent days that seem to expose the trojan horse for what I said it was. First, Ben Langhinrichs noted that Microsoft seems to have a self-serving definition of the word "coexistence". Second, my blogdigger feeds today caught this entry from Microsoft's James Conrad. He describes his new role at Microsoft, managing a team of evangelists. One mission in particular seems telling:
Two observations have been made in recent days that seem to expose the trojan horse for what I said it was. First, Ben Langhinrichs noted that Microsoft seems to have a self-serving definition of the word "coexistence". Second, my blogdigger feeds today caught this entry from Microsoft's James Conrad. He describes his new role at Microsoft, managing a team of evangelists. One mission in particular seems telling:
Lotus Notes Migration (Gary Devendorf)That seems to settle that. It does for Tom as well:
But can we now officially cut the kumbaya crap about just wanting to help us Domino developers out? Your job is evangelizing Notes migration. You work for Microsoft now, not Lotus. And if you represent Microsoft in any official capacity at an event, you also represent their position. Regardless of what you might want us to believe (or what *you* personally believe) otherwise...Rich picked this up on Yellowisthenewblack.com as well.
Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on February 11, 2006, 7:44pm