Domino Thoughts links to a new report that Ferris has just published entitled Exchange Reliability and Its Impact on Organizations Report.

Looks like fun reading if you're not an Exchange admin, and a litany of reasons to leave Exchange if you are.

Oh how I would love to get my hands on a copy of this report.  Sometimes you have to really see how the other half lives to be able to gauge how good you have it.  Not only is the grass not greener, but there are sink holes all over the lawn and the fescue has been replaced by dandelions.  The list of Key Trends includes such winners as Exchange Requires Constant Attention and It's Very Difficult to Diagnose Exchange Problems.  You're kidding me, right?  This is the bill of goods that the CIOs of corporate America are buying?  The last company I worked for had 1 Administrator (me), who was also the only developer, and I supported a 1500 user/6 server Notes mail/application environment with over half the workforce in remote locations.  And no, I didn't have Tivoli or any other admin tool helping me run it all.  I just set it up correctly and watched it purr. And yes, we ran Quickplace and Sametime.  Of course, it didn't hurt that the 1500 mail users were all supported by a single iSeries partition.

Jumping on Damien's bandwagon, it's worth repeating what we love about Domino so much - Security, Replication, Reliability, Clustering, Rapid Application Development, Portability, and Platform Viability.  Slice it any way you want, the only reasons to move from Lotus to Microsoft have nothing to do with technology.