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[News] Shillnalysts Exposed (Forrester, Gartner, IDC, F&S and 'Gang')

  • Subject: [News] Shillnalysts Exposed (Forrester, Gartner, IDC, F&S and 'Gang')
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:07:30 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Other Underreported Stories: Analyst Integrity?

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| There was a pretty interesting discussion with views on both sides. Some felt 
| that the rumors have been so persistent that, well, where there's smoke 
| there's fire. Others saying they have heard from someone who heard from 
| someone that once they started paying their exposure improved. Others saying 
| it's just like the rumors that magazine advertisers get better reviews, an 
| accusation that has been levied to Ziff-Davis publications, as well as 
| photography and stereo equipment magazines for years.      
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/12/other_underrepo.html?source=rss

Good old article:

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


Related:

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| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing 
| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing 
| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the 
| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
| 
| [...]
| 
| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I 
| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like 
| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention 
| that we sponsored it."
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http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf

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