Gartner, Open Source, and Microsoft
,----[ Quote ]
| There you have it:
|
| * Gartner made Microsoft what it is. We've reinforced Gartner's
| authority.
| * Not only did Gartner shape Microsoft, it wouldn't be wrong to see
| Gartner as the Grandfather of Open Source!
| * How Windows get to be what it is? It was non-disclosure, which,
| by implication, Gartner recommended to Microsoft and which this
| Gartner article seems to see as a core characteristic of open source.
`----
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2007/07/gartner_open_so.html
Like Mark said yesterday, Europe cannot let Gartner decide on its open source
strategy. It's ridiculous. They corrupt the term (see bottom).
New Gartner-sponsored paper on open source:
http://www.ebizq.net/webinars/8243.html
This one is amusing. A company wants to sell Linux software so it incites panic
and fear...
http://www.ciol.com/content/1870798373.aspx
There is now "Open Source Food"...
http://www.appscout.com/2007/07/find_something_tasty_with_open.php
Related:
Cognitive Dissonance: Gartner and Open Source
,----[ Quote ]
| Does Gartner get open source? While I'm sure that individual Gartner analysts
| do, I wonder that an open-source event without meaningful practitioner and
| community participation can adequately suggest real-world implementation
| strategies.
`----
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2007/07/cognitive_disso.html
Using open source as a marketing ploy
,----[ Quote ]
| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
`----
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
,----[ Quote ]
| 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.
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
|
|
