I agree that the word pilot may give the wrong impression to the potential adopter of RFID technology.

I disagree though, that an organization should go strait into deployment. The problem is not so much the maturity of RFID technology but the impact that RFID will have on the organizations business processes.

A pilot, or whatever you want to call it, is still useful in understanding the impact RFID is going to have on the affected business processes and systems while minimizing the risk of adversely impacting on-going operations. This is especially true if the business processes in the organization are poorly documented or not documented at all.