____/ kd5ob.portable@xxxxxxxxx on Saturday 05 April 2008 17:20 : \____
> http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/04/235212.shtml
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> It has been a few years since I've posted to Comp.Os. Linux.Advocacy.
>
> And in that time much has changed. We argued in the 90's that Free
> Software would dominate the
> market. Despite Gartner's use of Open Source, it's mainly still free
> software licensed under the GPL.
Gartner, along with Microsoft, tries to replace Free software with open source,
which Microsoft tries to hijack. The firm is still a buddy of Microsoft,
funded by Oracle, Microsoft and some other self-serving giants who require
bogus 'studies'.
Just days ago:
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/230047/pc-deal-could-save-public-sector-billions.htm
"Suffolk told Gartner, “I think we have fundamentally failed on a worldwide
basis as an IT industry to understand the cost of what we do. And I roundly
blame Gartner for this, because you guys are the ones who come up with TCO
[total cost of ownership] benchmarking. It has become a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
“So, I go out and I pick boring desktop infrastructure. What price do you
think the suppliers broadly pitch? You will not be shocked to know that it is
somewhere around the Gartner TCO benchmark.”"
By the way, your good message in the OP would have been more effective without
obscenities. You harm your own words.
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