____/ 7 on Thursday 10 April 2008 22:41 : \____
> Hello, I am a Gatner Shill, and I've been secretly
> commissioned by Micoshaft Corporation
> to conduct research into family ties of all
> the 'impotent' shills working the COLA ng for money.
>
> So far I have concluded the following...
>
> 1. Moshe Goldfart is a polygamist.
>
> 2. He has many wives (Hardon, Doofy, Amicus Curios, Snot, Eric, etc..)
>
> 3. Moshe exchanged bodily fluids with wife Hardon and begat Ezekiel
>
> 4. Little Ezekiel Goldfart aspires to be Moshe Goldfart but
> his dipers are showing and letting him down.
>
> 6. Now now now,, Doh! Look! J.. J.. Justaminte!
> I can tell you are not taking this seriously!...
> I refuse to continue writing this report until
> I am taken seriously....
Gartner: Windows Collapsing Under its Own Weight; Radical Change Needed
Subject: Not worth the clickf ( Apr 10, 2008, 21:53:04 )
While the title may sound enticing, this is mostly a 'how to fix badly broken
windows', and 'you should stick with windows no matter what' kind of story.
The heading is designed to garner a lot of clicks, but the story really isn't
worth the read.
Joe
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-10-014-26-OP-MR-MS-0001
The article quotes Michael Silver.
Buy Vista or die
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| Gartner research vice president Michael Silver said that outfits have delayed
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| their Vista migrations to the point of stupidity and now some are considering
| late 2008 or even 2009, while others mull skipping the OS completely.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/07/vista-die
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| Just days after banning Enderle from discussing Microsoft because
| he has Microsoft as a client, the Times quoted Gartner analyst
| Michael Silver and AMR Research analyst Jim Murphy in a story
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| about Microsoft's Windows and Office software.
|
| 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/
Gartner analyst: OOXML important domino
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| Businessweek (Jennifer L Schenker) quoted Gartner analyst Michael Silver last
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| week who puts OOXML in a wider commercial perspective...
|
| "appear more open". This is how Gartner views the credibility of the new
| [OOXML] openness....
|
| Look how optimistic Gartner's Silver is...
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-44362/gartner-analyst:ooxml-important-domino
Credibility Of Analysts
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| Research firms make their living by offering expert advice to business and
| technology people about the best ways to invest their IT dollars. It can be
| invaluable insight, but only if that analysis comes with no strings attached.
| And on that, there's no guarantee.
|
| Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and others insist their output is squeaky clean, yet
| they also rake in millions providing services to the very same companies they
| monitor, heavyweights like Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. Which leads to
| a question that continues to dog the research firms: How much influence do
| technology vendors have over their work?
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CTCBZVQX5MTSCQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=178601879&queryText=analyst+influence
Always smell the scent of a shill from a distance. Of course, there is an
element of truth to the fact that Windows is a lost cause, The problem is that
Silver uses it to tempt in ears and then sell Windows to them.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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