Interesting quote in a company’s claim of migrating Notes to Exchange
Tags :Migration Microsoft Exchange Quest
I found an article about a product set that assist in migrating Notes mailboxes to Exchange. The lines that stuck out were as follows: "We seeing larger customers moving to Exchange," says Ron Robbins, product manager for Exchange migration solutions at Quest. "we are seeing 20,000 to 50,000 user accounts moving over..."
Quest, which says it has migrated more than a million Notes mailboxes to date, ...
Where the heck are all these users?
There is a podcast you must listen to, for at least the first minute, that they put on the right side. The podcast's first question that asks why people are moving. Ron, quoted above, actually states that there is confusion around whether Notes will be around and the move to Workplace Messaging replacing Notes. Of course, the interviewer and Ron are both Quest employees. The statement that there is more mobile options on Exchange and greater reliability had us laughing in the office. Oh please go listen and laugh along. Then taunt them with me.
This product was formerly Wingra until Feb 2005. The only reason you are hearing this is because they posted a new release of the software and the FUD around who is using it and why is laughable. They restrict access to Case Management and Documentation, so I couldn't poke around there. It is apparent through their technotes they rely on the Notes Connector for Exchange to move mail back and forth during the coexistence time though. I found some shortfalls people listed out on the web, things that did not work right. But you can find that on your own.
Oh go read the article and then the site over here...
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On Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 by Chris Miller
