Posts by Darren Adams 4 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Nov 2008
Every Exchange 'upgrade' has been a pain and riddled with caveats and hurdles. Surely no-one should be surprised that this is just more of the same again.
On the other hand, Lotus Domino... consistent upgrades and far less fussy about the OS. I couldn't imagine IBM telling it's customers that they'll have to build new servers and migrate the mail boxes over. It just doesn't happen.
"Well, although you clearly have no clue about how statistics works, it is of course the case that if the sampling is not representative of the population, the numbers will not reflect the population."
That's precisely my point - what I was saying was that there's no say of telling how skewed either survey was in it's audience, and any statistician will tell you that less than 1% from an unknown survey base is an opinion, not a trend. And I got grade B for A level statistics, thanks very much.
I'm going to take a stab at estimating the percentage of the market that 1,125 respondents represents, and I'd say it's less than 1% (assuming each represents one company). So if you're prepared to believe the stats that come from 1,125 respondents, it's reasonable that you should believe the results coming from a similar number in another survey (980 responses), correct? That survey reveals Lotus Domino to hold 83% of the market.
http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pid=436&pk=1470&op=lst
Flawed? Probably no more than any other survey that takes in a tiny fraction of the market. Why not walk round Microsoft's campus and then come to the conclusion that the Zune leads the market over the iPod?
As for people who say "I used to use Notes, I didn't like it, but I'll stick my fingers in my ears and say la la la rather than hear about the improvements"... they just sound a bit childish.
It's not just open source fanciers who have noticed that the Beeb is extremely Microsoft-centric. Some days the Beeb's technology page is like Microsoft's personal PR machine. The Windows 7 article is just one of many examples. I understand that Microsoft are a company that people are interested in, but if the Beeb only ever run stories about Microsoft, Apple and Google then their readers never get to hear about anything else. It's just not balanced.
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