eWeek: Report Foresees Declining IBM E-Mail Penetration

April 9 2004

Interesting headline, short story that doesn't seem to tell the whole story.  The actual story talks about the Lotus share of an ever-growing "messaging" market, as forecast by the Radicati Group.  Looking at messaging as a flat horizontal market has always been dangerous -- to take an analogy, I don't think that Ritz-Carlton thinks of Motel 6 as a competitor, even though they are both in the "lodging" industry.
The article also tries to take an excellent, long Ferris Research report on Lotupshere and summarize it in five words.  I think the interpretation there is a bit misleading -- I found the Ferris report to be quite comprehensive and balanced.  Oh well.
There is one good nugget here:

Radicati said that 71 percent of IBM's corporate-messaging installed base is on Domino 6.x, compared with only 57 percent of Microsoft Corp. customers that have moved up to Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003.
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Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Lotus  Add/View Comments [3]

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  1. 1  Paul Robichaux http://www.robichaux.net/blog/ | 4/9/2004 9:40:47 AM

    Hey, it could have been worse; they could have quoted Rob Enderle.

  1. 2  Tony Lee  | 4/9/2004 1:54:10 PM

    I like Paul Robichaux's Enderle comment, HAR!.

  1. 3  Rock http://www.LotusGeek.com | 4/9/2004 5:21:04 PM

    before I checked this blog; oh well. You can read my thoughts on this there...

    http://www.lotusgeek.com/SapphireOak/LotusGeekBlog.nsf/d6plinks/ROLR-5XVQZP