Analysts: Seeing the future by looking backward? (Dave Dargo)
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| Dave is right. Back when I was at Lineo (embedded Linux vendor), I
| remember how frustrated I got with the analysts covering the space,
| because every prospect to whom I talked was rolling out Linux
| somewhere, on some device, or at least had it in pilot. But you
| saw almost none of this data in the analyst reports. To them it
| was Symbian, Windows, VxWorks, etc. There was no concept of the
| deluge that was about to happen.
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| In similar fashion, I can tell you from direct, personal experience
| that open source applications are being rolled out all over the
| planet in copious amounts, by decidedly "late adopter"-type
| companies. Financial Services firms, yes, but also in Manufacturing,
| Media, Government, etc. etc.
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| Yet most analyst firms are still preaching last millenium's message.
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