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 Sunday, December 23, 2007

I noticed that one of the Google ads on the WSS FAQ posting here said

 

Get Ready for SPS 2007

Migrate your website and documents to MOSS 2007 with Metalogix
 
 
 
Given that there is no "SPS 2007", it's hard to have much confidence in Metalogix's expereince with Sharepoint. If they can't even get the name right ....
 
 
 
Later: The title of the Metalogix Google add has been changed to "Migrate to MOSS 2007" ....  Coincidence ?
12/23/2007 7:39:54 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [1]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
1/18/2008 7:57:53 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)
Hi Mike,

I hope this finds you well. Just thought I would follow up on your posting. The ad was actually created prior to the official naming of MOSS. SPS 2007 seemed like a good descriptor that most people familiar with sharepoint would understand even if it was not precisely correct. It also met the difficult to manage 25 character limit for Google ad titles. Whereas "Get Ready for SharePoint 2007" unfortunately does not. We wanted to be proactive about promoting our upcoming migration solution given our participation in the TAP program and heavy investment in supporting that use case. Interestingly enough "sps 2007" continues to be used as a search term by users of google. I guess people who are familiar with SharePoint 2003 in some cases mistakenly search for sps 2007 not being familiar with the MOSS 2007 branding.

If you are ever interested in seeing a demo of our software or evaluating it I would be very happy to set up a livemeeting with you or provide you with an eval copy. I am happy to report that we have had excellent feedback from our customers and have been able to help a number of organizations that have complex migration requirements. In fact, Microsoft has on occasion acquired licenses for their customers and MS premium support will direct customers to us as well. If you ever want to chat with one of customers to find out how robust Migration Manager is I could probably arrange that as well.

Best wishes for 2008 and if you are attending the SharePoint Conference in March, Teched or WWPC please let me know and I can say hello in person.

Cheers,
Rasool

Rasool Rayani
Director Sales and Marketing
Metalogix Software
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