Steve: Microsoft FUD and IBM Customer Value

Steve has a really interesting post on Microsoft FUD and IBM Customer Value. He’s talking about a blog of the same name, and he’s not too impressed.

It would be nice to say that I don’t waste my time reading such things, but unfortunately it’s necessary. But I don’t spend much time on it because it tends not to be scratching where customers are itching. Following on from my last article the main point that people are interested in “Influential people hate the Notes client” I get loads and loads of hits for that page with almost exactly that phrase. Perhaps it’s something that people normally search the Internet for, or perhaps it’s an issue. It’s also the issue, though not the phrase, that The Guardian picked up on.

I’ll leave with Steve’s summing up:

“When I see the amazing hype and passion that is generated around Microsoft products and the huge amount of high quality information that gets pumped out by marketing but now more importantly bloggers IBM seems to really pale by comparison.  Of course Microsoft gets plenty of criticism, but they are out there in the open having the debate.

I personally am fortunate to have a great sales team supporting me and sending me some good quality information,  but to be frank I prefer to get content from blogs where I also get access to the discussion and debate!”

Tags: Notes,Domino,IBM,Microsoft