For years now, members of the Lotus software community has had to fight the fear, uncertainty and doubt put out by Microsoft and their paid "analysts". When it comes to SharePoint, everybody is getting hit by it. Any person with an ounce ...
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Way back in 1990, I went to Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown for Sunday Mass. It was my first time going to this controversial Jesuit parish, and I was blown away. Father Walter Burghardt, a noted and published homilist, was expressing his ...
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Paul Mooney is on the case, and has found the next FUD-inducing release from Microsoft. Called the "Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino", you can read about it on Paul's blog. Well colleagues, time to get the shovels out for another ...
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In my presentations on compliance, I talk about myths and traps people fall into, including "I read somewhere that...". In the May 1, 2006 issue of InfoWorld, Ephraim Schwartz provides one of these wonderful references in his editorial ...
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Microsoft has been unusually quiet about the debacle known as the "Application Analyzer Tool". Although Paul Mooney has thoroughly examined both the beta and production versions of this tool and found them seriously wanting, that has not ...
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Colleague Mark Edmead, who is also my co-presenter at the E-Mail Management and Compliance Advisor Seminar in Las Vegas next month, forwarded me a copy of a presentation today. Offered by Symantec as part of the Ziff-Davis E-Seminar Series, the ...
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A member of a Sarbanes-Oxley Listserv I belong to caught my attention today. He sent out a report that he "found" called "Sarbanes-Oxley Tools: Why Do They Fail?". Written by Rohit Tripothy, formerly with Ernst and Young in India, ...
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Thursday morning of Lotusphere 2006 brought the 2nd incarnation of "GURUPalooza". This session puts all the speakers in the Best Practices track on the stage for panel questions and I was honored again to be part of this great group of people. ...
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Antony Satyadas (Chief Competitive Marketing Officer for IBM Software Group WPLC) has launched an anti-FUD blog. A very visible step in the commitment made by IBM at ...
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Microsoft may have taken a few too many punches from the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Community over "Red Bull". It seems they have pulled the FUD-filled and poorly designed "conversion tool" off of their web site. Go figure! It is ...
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Yes, it is that time those in the IBM Lotus Notes community look forward to each January. It usually sparks much discussion and the volume increases. No, I am not talking about Lotusphere 2006, which opens this coming Sunday. I am talking about the ...
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Numbers, numbers, numbers. Sometimes they are accurate. Sometimes they just fuel fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). FUD may be spread in different ways by different people, with different agendas. Consider the e-mail I received from a director of ...
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While it might suprise some of my readers, I am about to come to defense of the Microsoft Corporation. If you recall, yesterday I posted about the assertion contained in Lance James new book, Phishing Exposed, that Microsoft Outlook was potentially a ...
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As readers of this blog know, I do not suffer FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) well, especially when products are marketed as "certified" by some unknown or unidentified group, or even by the Government. Added to this recipe is receiving the ...
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It is not bad enough that as IT professionals we have to fight marketing FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) every day, bit it is irresponsible when one of our colleagues does so within our own community. In this case, an individual posted that he had ...
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Well over a year ago, I publicly lamented the fact that we were sure to see products labeled as "Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant" or "Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliant", much as vendors stamped products "Y2K compliant" only ...
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Competitors of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino could not have scripted it better. Chris Linfoot calls it "Do it Yourself" FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Volker Weber asks "Why is it so hard to just tell it as it is?". Ed Brill is left ...
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I could not believe my ears when I heard it! Sametime is dead at IBM! Real news or FUD? Well it is the latter, and it came up in reference to an IT/SarBox Auditor trying to remedy some problems with employees at his company using AOL Instant Messenger ...
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Richard Schwartz is the latest to join the "Fighting FUD" Blogroll, adding the image/link to his blog. He also writes about his FUD-fighting efforts with Lisa Vaas of e-Week Magazine (Chris Miller has also taken this article on). Who will ...
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For years now, many people have felt that Dan Lyons of Forbes Magazine has had an axe to grind with Lotus Notes. Is it because IBM and/or Ray Ozzie never let him play with them or did not give him candy? What I do know is that Mr. Lyons, in a ...
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Gregg Eldred has posted the "Fighting FUD" image/link to his blog. Welcome Jeff! Who will be next? ...
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Chris Whisonant of Rock Hill, SC and Gerco Wolfswinkel of the Netherlands are the latest bloggers to add the "Fighting FUD" image/link to their blogs. Welcome gentlemen! Who will be ...
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Jeff Crossett has posted the "Fighting FUD" image/link to his "My Portal Project" blog. Welcome Jeff! Who will be ...
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Fellow FUD Fighter Chris Linfoot reports receiving a letter from a Microsoft Gold Partner loaded with factual misstatements and FUD, such as "When IBM announced its intention to migrate Lotus to WebSphere, and your entire infrastructure would need ...
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I sent an email to Chris Jablonski of ZDNet about this story and here is his reply, which bodes well for those of us that are fighting FUD in the marketplace: "Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I quote Radicati from time to time...The ...
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For an unknown reason, I seemed to have a large number of referrals from ZDNet today. I wondered why. Well it seems that buried in the ZDNet story, "IBM's Mills touts managed clients" , which Ed Brill blogged about today, was the ...
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Chris Linfoot, probably the leading anti-Spam expert in the lotus Notes/Domino Community has informed me that he should be number 2 behind Tom "Duffbert" Duff in adding the "Fighting FUD" graphic and link to his blog. Well, I do ...
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Matt White and Joe Litton are the latest bloggers to add the "Fighting FUD" image and link to their blogs, so they have been added to this special blogroll. Welcome Gentlemen! Who will be next? ...
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Tom Duff is the first blogger to add the "Fighting FUD" image and link to his blog, so he is the first entry on this special blogroll. Welcome Duffbert! Who will be ...
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In light of yet another technical publication citing the statistically invalid Radicati "survey", I have added a block containing links to the "Fighting FUD" articles I have published on the Business Controls Caddy web site. So ...
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What would you do if you were forced to pull a document from your public website because it was filled with factual errors and misstatements? What would you do with survey results that were shown to be biased and held to be statistically invalid by ...
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I finished reading "Inside the SPAM Cartel: Trade Secrets From The Dark Side" today. For the first time, I can say that a technical book had me crying in laughter. I do not want to give away too much about the review I am writing about the ...
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Imagine if you will a scenario. A scenario where you want to do a survey of an installed software user base to get a handle on the future of the software in question. Go further and assume that the software is used by 60,000 customers worldwide. So you ...
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A month or so ago, my colleagues told me that Daniel Lyons of Forbes Magazine, hardly a favorite writer in the eyes of the Lotus community, was writing an article about the Radicati affair that I wrote about last summer. So, my colleagues said, I might ...
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A few of weeks ago, I wrote about an article that Stephen Swoyer wrote about spreadsheet controls. In that piece, Mr. Swoyer took an unintentional bash at Lotus Notes/Domino as a tool to support it governance and compliance and he later let me ...
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