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As Gartner expands, so does the competition
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| Gartner Inc. said today it is acquiring
| enterprise IT advisory firm the Burton Group
| for $56 million, just one month after it
| announced it was buying AMR Research for $64
| million. But if Gartner is attempting to
| consolidate the IT analysis industry, it may
| be playing a game of whack-a-mole.
|
| Analysts across the board are emerging as
| independent brands with their own
| followings, and there's a general view among
| IT analysts that the number of independent
| analysis firms is on the rise, even if no
| one is really sure on the number.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143117/As_Gartner_expands_so_does_the_competition
This also quotes Rob Enderle, calling the shill "an independent analyst".
What a joke.
Related:
To Sir, with Love
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| Dear Microsoft,
|
| For years, I have watched and admired you from afar, playing witness to your
| unshakable dominance of office productivity suites, wept when it seemed the
| world spoke coldly of Office 2007, and protested with great vehemence against
| your blisteringly unfair convictions as an evil monopolist. Why does the
| world misunderstand you? Why does it question your intentions?
|
| I hope that next month, when the International Organization for
| Standardization reviews the 3,500 technical issues raised regarding your
| proposed OOXML standard, that beautiful standard it so cruelly rejected last
| year, justice will prevail and you will go on to succeed in yet another
| proprietary vendor lock-in.
|
| Deepest affections,
|
| The Burton Group
|
| Ok, so the recent report issued by Burton Group, a research firm specializing
| network and applications infrastructure technologies, doesn't come right out
| and profess its love to the Redmond-based software company, but it might as
| well.
|
| The report reads more like a love letter than a critical study aimed at
| taking a hard look at whether the Open Document Format realistically stands a
| chance against Microsoft's everpresent Office Open XML file format. Had it
| done that, it could've been incredibly interesting.
|
| Instead, the lengthy report, when boiled down, not only disses the long-term
| relevance of the Open Document Format, but then goes and blames Sun
| Microsystems for the format's downfall (if and when a downfall is to occur).
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http://blogs.eweek.com/desktop_confidential/content/file_formats/to_sir_with_love.html
OOXML: the propaganda war has begun
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| The arguments put forward by the Burton group do not hold much water - OOXML
| is not anti-competitive, it will become more widespread in use (due to the
| widespread use of Microsoft Office), ODF is driven by anti-Microsoft
| sentiment more than any technical merit, etc. Sun Microsystems comes in for
| quite a bit of bashing.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16153/1090/
Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate
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| OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims
| that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the
| OpenDocument Format.
|
| [...]
|
| Burton Group also attracted controversy in August 2007 when it warned
| businesses against the use of Google Apps, another free software competitor
| to Microsoft Office.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6226607.html
Open XML trumps ODF in document format fight, consulting firm says
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| Midvale, Utah-based Burton Group said that the report was neither
| commissioned nor paid for by Microsoft. However, Burton analyst Peter
| O'Kelly, one of the report's co-authors, is scheduled to make a presentation
| at an Open XML press briefing that Microsoft plans to hold in the Seattle
| area on Wednesday. Also speaking will be multiple Microsoft executives
| involved in the Open XML standards-ratification effort.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9057235
[Response to Burton Group's Microsoft FUD:]
Google denies its Apps just a Microsoft Office add-on
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| Google staff don't like the suggestion that their own employees depend mostly
| on Microsoft Office even as Google Apps makes headway into the enterprise
| collaboration and e-mail market.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1697987130&rid=-50
Punct Contrapunct
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| Guy, excuse me, did you say "conflicts of interest"? Please explain. Or maybe
| when Peter O'Kelly comes back from speaking at Microsoft's Office Developers
| Conference he can explain it for us?
|
| [...]
|
|
| The Burton Group has denigrated the work and the members of the OASIS Open
| Document Format Technical Committee (of which I am Co-Chair) with published
| statements that have been shown to be false. The Burton Group owes us an
| apology and an immediate retraction.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/02/punct-contrapunct.html
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