Lose the War, Win the Battle?

Many times over the years I saw this happen. We would convince a client to take Lotus only to be hung out to dry during the next regime.
Perhaps Lotus should get out to the CIO/CTO conferences that ARE NOT sponsored by IBM and sit on a panel or get some speaking time.
The battle is won at lower levels easily but rarely at higher ones as easily when it comes to Lotus vs. MS or anyone else. Why is that?

The Little Green Men(LGMs or Aliens) in Toy Story have a Unimind. Why can't we portray Domino as providing that to clients employees?
If you need everyone on the same page, it helps to have a software that can mix and match as your company grows?

R7, R8? But we are till on R4!

It's an odd bit of news perhaps to Lotus and my friend Ed Brill, but there is a boom in Notes admin positions lately.
Moving to R7 you think? Hell no!
These companies are plodding along and want to upgrade.....to R6!
Now you can say well you see Lotus built a VW and R4.5 can last forever.

So as we run up to Lotusphere 2007, how many companies out there still have R4 or R5 servers? And why have they not upgraded yet? We want to help you upgrade, but you need to take the first step.