Dell Linux set to shake up OS market
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| However, Enderle cautioned that Linux users, by their nature, tend to
| buy at the lowest price points. "If Dell cannot get them to accept
| prices that provide acceptable margins, or change their buying habits
| to make them upsell targets for products like business productivity
| and security software, the experiment is doomed," he said.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2187517/dell-linux-set-shake-market
He should of course realise that Enderle is a notorious Microsoft shill,
right? A quick background check will confirm this. Enderle has been going
around, submitting press release (they cost money) to spread FUD about Dell
and Linux recently. Who's paying for this? He also did this with the OLPC,
which runs Linux. How filthy is Microsoft, SCO, and the rest of the ilk
willing to get? It's all too transparent.
Related:
Rob Enderle: 'I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn?t and
the more people told me I couldn?t, and particularly when they said ?or
else,? the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me'
Rob Enderle: 'I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every
third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel'
Rob Enderle: 'many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents.
Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source'
Rob Enderle: 'Linux is being widely used on the desktop in the third world,
where applications are limited and labor is inexpensive..' Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle: 'I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from
terrorist... I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it
was that zealots'
Linux fails to defend itself against imaginary FUD problem
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| I wouldn't normally respond to pleas for attention, but Rob Enderle's
| latest piece on Linux and FUD cannot escape comment.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/linux_fails_to.html
Microsoft Xbox to Join the Battle for Video Downloading
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| Editors' Note: November 10, 2006, Friday An article in Business Day
| on Tuesday described a decision by Microsoft to offer movies and
| episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live
| online service in the United States.
|
| The article quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle
| Group, discussing the features that set Xbox Live service apart
| and its position in the market.
|
| But the article did not note that Mr. Enderle had Microsoft as a client,
| a fact later pointed out by a reader. Mr. Enderle does consulting work
| for several of Microsoft's product groups, though not for the one
| developing the Xbox; still, had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work
| for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product.
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http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50713F83A5B0C748CDDA80994DE404482
http://tinyurl.com/y3avsv
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| The New York Times continues to perplex with its analyst- quoting
| policy. Rather than having analysts declare their ties to clients,
| the paper would prefer to quote analysts that have no experience
| with a client - a protocol which seems to undermine the very point
| of citing analysts.
|
| The Register this week started pushing the Times to explain its
| quoting stance after noticing that Rob Enderle - the most quoted
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| technology analyst on the planet - had been blocked from commenting
| on companies with which he has a financial relationship. The ban
| against Enderle appeared odd, given that Times reporters continue
| to cite analysts from larger firms who also have financial
| relationships with the companies discussed.
|
| [...]
|
| As it turns out, there's a cottage industry devoted to Rob
| Enderle, where Linux zealots fire off this form letter to editors
| whenever Enderle appears talking about Microsoft. Perhaps the Linux
| crowd could put its fabled collective mind toward creating letters
| for all the major analysts. Lord knows, the Times could use
| some help.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
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