{"id":328,"date":"2005-08-31T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=328"},"modified":"2005-08-31T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T19:22:22","slug":"on-software-currency-and-respected-industry-analysts-like-idc-gartner-burton-redmonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/on-software-currency-and-respected-industry-analysts-like-idc-gartner-burton-redmonk\/","title":{"rendered":"On Software Currency and &#8220;Respected industry analysts like IDC, Gartner, Burton, Redmonk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always nice to be acknowledged in august company. So thanks are owing to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbrill.com\/ebrill\/edbrill.nsf\/dx\/what-does-it-all-mean\">Ed Brill<\/a> from Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>RedMonk is certainly not big, but its far more important to be respected than big.<\/p>\n<p>Ed called us out as context in a post about Lotus momentum. Here are\u00a0his bullet points:<!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Lotusphere 2005, IBM announced 1468 new customers for Notes\/Domino   during 2004.<\/li>\n<li>In the last three fiscal quarters, IBM has announced double-digit revenue   growth for Notes\/Domino.<\/li>\n<li>Over 80% of all Notes\/Domino customers are running Notes\/Domino 6.x, the   most successful upgrade cycle of the modern (post-R3) Notes product lifecycle.   \u00a0By comparison, Steve Ballmer was quoted coming out of MS&#8217;s partner   conference as saying that only 15% of Office customers have upgraded to Office   2003, which shipped about the same timeframe.<\/li>\n<li><em>Respected industry analysts like IDC, Gartner, Burton,   <strong>Redmonk<\/strong>, and Forrester<\/em> have all published positive   reports about Notes\/Domino 7, and the next release of Notes (&#8220;Hannover&#8221;),   during 2005.<\/li>\n<li>In the next few days, IBM will launch Notes\/Domino 7, the best release of   the product ever. \u00a0The release is coming on-time (some say that IBM is   even early vs. expectations), and a multi-million US dollar worldwide launch   will ensue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currency is a very interesting test of customer commitment, which Ed is canny to highlight.<\/p>\n<p>The more current an infrastructure is, the more strategic it is to the customer, while the less current, the more tactical it is. Currency is a very clear indicator of ongoing commitment from an installed base. In many respects currency is far more valuable as a market barometer than installed base because it allows us to consider potential market inflexion points. Do any of the analyst market share counting\u00a0companies parse currency in their methodology? Not that I know of. RedMonk certainly pays close attention to the factor.<\/p>\n<p>Currency is one reason the folks at IBM are happy about about <a href=\"http:\/\/www-306.ibm.com\/software\/htp\/cics\/\">CICS<\/a> futures at the moment. zSeries customers are swiftly upgrading to the latest versions of the transaction management software, because they want to move forward with service oriented architectures. The flipside &#8211; those mainframe customers that are not getting current,\u00a0that aren&#8217;t modernising their infrastructures, are the ones most likely to\u00a0fall to competitive migration programs by other vendors.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0post is not intended as a critique of Microsoft, thought the vendor is having issues with currency at the moment. Many customers feel their infrastructures are &#8220;good enough&#8221;. Microsoft is therefore using its services arm to help make the case for upgrades to large customers.<\/p>\n<p>An infrastructure that is not current is less strategic and therefore more open to commoditization. In order to &#8220;<a href=\"The basic idea behind \u201crunning the stack\u201d is to build on a commons infrastructure where Open Standards are publicly embraced. Above the commons high water mark, a vendor innovates and extends protocols, methods, and interfaces with the promise of returning these efforts to the commons infrastructure (as Open Standards proposals). This \u201cpromise\u201d to customers and ecosystem participants kicks in when critical mass has been reached. Critical mass being defined as that moment when interoperability with other information systems and technologies becomes as important an issue as the initiative itself. At that point the initiative is pushed down the stack into the commons infrastructure, raising the high water line. The vendor of course moves higher up the stack to innovate and enhance once again.\">run the stack<\/a>&#8220;, software companies need to keep customers current.<\/p>\n<p>At RedMonk we do our best to stay current with the latest trends (and get ahead of that curve if possible), and more importantly try and ensure that our clients are up to date as well. Our knowledge only has significant value when it is networked, distributed and leads to action, which is why we believe in high touch not ivory towers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re usually better at currency than our bigger competitors, which hopefully wins\u00a0us\u00a0respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always nice to be acknowledged in august company. So thanks are owing to\u00a0Ed Brill from Lotus. RedMonk is certainly not big, but its far more important to be respected than big. Ed called us out as context in a post about Lotus momentum. Here are\u00a0his bullet points: At Lotusphere 2005, IBM announced 1468<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}