Inside the mind of the enemy: the business analys
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| They predict the future through a combination of careful wording, stating
| the obvious in an interesting way, voodoo magic, and rubber chickens.
| Most people don't take stock into what most business analysts say, but
| the atypical pointy haired boss will buy right into what they say.
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| Business analysts like directions. "Our company is going in this
| direction," or, "their company is going in that direction," or, "SCO
| is going straight to jail, failing to pass go, and not collecting
| 200 monetary units." Sometimes they are right, of course.
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| For example, Microsoft's analysts have pretty much pointed at the
| free software community as a bunch of demons trying to destroy
| corporate America, or some suitably worse FUD.
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| Our not-so-friendly neighborhood analysts constantly fail when it
| comes to Linux: they keep trying to treat Linux as if it is a company.
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