Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
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| Gartner analyst George Weiss opines that just 12-18 months ago,
| there were still questions about whether open-source business
| models were sustainable. Now, no such questions remain. Open
| source is becoming so pervasive that big proprietary vendors
| are not just embracing open source but now must be careful not
| to be seen as impeding the progress, fearing both developer and
| customer backlashes.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3660831
Analysts -- they know everything. Sometimes they flip-flop. Sometimes they
just shill for Microsoft.
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| If the paper would prefer not to quote an analyst who has
| experience with a client, it did a poor job. Silver is Gartner's
| vice president in charge of client computing. Microsoft happens to
| do lots of business with Gartner and also happens to have a
| client-software monopoly. We're guessing that Silver knows
| Microsoft's products well and has direct involvement with the
| company.
|
| And, sure enough, he appears a number of times on Microsoft's
| own site and thousands of times in stories about Microsoft.
|
| Jim Murphy - wait for it - covers Microsoft too and is even more
| prolific than Silver.
|
| [...]
|
| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
| They're also too lazy or scared to ignore the likes of Gartner and
| IDC until the firms change their disclosure rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
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