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____/ Linonut on Wednesday 13 August 2008 12:21 : \____
> * DFS peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Left side of your piehole: Gartner is pay for say.
>> Right side of your piehole: Gartner says Linux is 4% of the market
>>
>> So who paid them?
>
> Microsoft.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/open_season_seven/
Takeaways and exact quotes:
About Gartner: Bill Gates and Larry Ellison invest in them... Ballmer picks up
the phone "shooting at them"... "IDC is the absolute worst"... they "can't
believe they get paid for that stuff"... if only there was no conflict of
interest... they must deal only with the figures their clients give them...
you have to wonder who is paying the bills... you have to wonder out loud...
no conspiracy theory... Microsoft demands that analysts will only count Linux
if there's a shipment (payment) attached to it... there's no information out
there about Linux usage... they phoned Gartner and the analysts would only
talk about money... $7.5 billion for the Linux PC market is estimated...
working by Microsoft's definitions.
Microsoft controls information. "they [analysts] get forcefed"... Nobody
actually tracks Linux usage at the moment...
Listen to the audiocast of presidents and find out for yourself.
Also see:
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
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