While dutifully answering the questions for Radicati’s 2006 Messaging and Collaboration Survey, Chris Miller came across this:
- How soon do you plan on deploying IBM Workplace Messaging?
___ months - What is your messaging plan?
- Stick with Domino for as long as possible (emphasis ours)
- Move to MS Exchange
- Move to a hosted solution
- Other (Please explain below)
Miller, who is a well-known Lotus administrator, as well as editor of IdoNotes (and sleep) blog, did not appreciate the implication that Domino is on its way out as IBM Workplace is not expected to supplant, subsume or incorporate full Domino functionality for a very long time.
The Lotus community has claimed for some time that the Radicati Group is anti-Lotus. At one point, a competing market analyst became so incensed by one of Radicati’s alleged anti-Lotus reports, that he tore it apart, point-for-point… gratis. And Lotus chief, Ed Brill, has highlighted discrepancies in Radicati estimates of Microsoft Exchange dominance.
Through it all, Dr. Sara Radicati has insisted that her market research firm is coldly reporting what it sees, bias-free.
And now this: Do you plan to do something about messaging or “stick with Domino for as long as possible?”
On the face, it looks like a shoddy attempt at an old-fashioned push survey, like politicians and journalists use to get exactly the intended reaction.
Taken within the context of Radicati’s other recent work, it looks to us like… a shoddy attempt at an old-fashioned push survey.
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