Still on Exchange 5.5? 26% of you reportedly are
Tags :Domino 7
A quick news flash, yes there is still old
Microsoft Exchange deployments and also Domino deployments.
A large percentage
of e-mail users in the workplace still employ old versions of Microsoft
Exchange. A recent survey we completed showed that 26% of Exchange users
are still on Version 5.5 or earlier - meaning these users are now at least
two generations behind the current version of Exchange.
Now I have not seen that type of quote
(this was from Network World on 5-3-05) for Domino recently. How
many enterprises are still back in the 4.6x range and early 5? They
don't follow the same reasons of changing directory structure (Active Directory),
changing data store and numerous others. So is the hold-up budget
related? Time to implement? Management issues (meaning company
upper management)? Manpower?
As I prepare for Admin2005,
I begin to think about this from all my previous sessions over the past
couple years. I am always surprised by any numbers of people still
back in those versions of Domino and the lack of planning they have made
to move ahead. Plus, they seem to still have issues and implementation
goals that can be easily reached in 6, and of course 7.
I took this from an article
back in Dec 2003
In comparison, 85%
of Lotus customers had already upgrade to R5 in June of 2002, three months
before the launch of Domino 6.
So what is going on? Why do we still
hear of major companies that upgrade and are flagships for marketing and
the other shops that haven't made the move?
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On Friday, May 6th, 2005 by Chris Miller
