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Butler Group: Red herring and bull?
Butler Group's weblog takes a look at MIcrosoft's"redbull" efforts on Notes migrations:Fear,Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) is, all too frequently in the IT world, partof a marketer's armoury, and well ahead pre-announcements of software arenot uncommon from Microsoft. However, to announce and then 'lose' a productsupposedly in Beta reflects badly on the industry as a whole.Whilst Microsoft's announcement mayhave been designed as a red flag to the IBM Lotus bull, the perceptionof bull that it leaves may make those considering migrating see red.Still, Butler's entry has cause for pause for me -- they indicate that somewherearound 10% of the customers they surveyed are planning to migrate awayfrom Notes. More work to do.Link: ButlerGroup: Red herring and bull? >(Note that the permalink takes you to a plain text web page...the toplevel URL shows the full weblog)
Butler Group's weblog takes a look at MIcrosoft's
"redbull" efforts on Notes migrations:
Link: Butler Group: Red herring and bull? > (Note that the permalink takes you to a plain text web page...the top level URL shows the full weblog)
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) is, all too frequently in the IT world, part of a marketer's armoury, and well ahead pre-announcements of software are not uncommon from Microsoft. However, to announce and then 'lose' a product supposedly in Beta reflects badly on the industry as a whole.Still, Butler's entry has cause for pause for me -- they indicate that somewhere around 10% of the customers they surveyed are planning to migrate away from Notes. More work to do.
Whilst Microsoft's announcement may have been designed as a red flag to the IBM Lotus bull, the perception of bull that it leaves may make those considering migrating see red.
Link: Butler Group: Red herring and bull? > (Note that the permalink takes you to a plain text web page...the top level URL shows the full weblog)
Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on February 10, 2006, 5:26am