Analysts Get Hit By Cluestick?
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| See the pattern? It might not be entirely evident from the headlines, but if
| you read the articles, it will become immediately clear: these positive
| statements about Linux and negative statements about Windows are courtesy of
| analysts.
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| What's going on here? Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Did (as some wags
| amongst us might suggest) Redmond forget to send in a check? Or is it, as we
| all have known for what seems like forever, the inevitability of open source
| and Linux as a force to contend with in IT?
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-11-020-26-OP-MR
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned
that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very
prickly to work with.”
–Microsoft, internal document
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
The Linux lesson Windows needs
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| That’s what all these various Linux vendors are really up to, slicing and
| dicing and parsing and picking what the Linux Foundation delivers into
| something custom made for their customers, like cooks creating meals from an
| ingredient list.
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| Microsoft has never done that. It’s tried to, with things like Window Mobile.
| But eventually everything it touches turns to bloatware, in the name of
| compatibility.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2280
The 'analysts' ran of of material (dirt).
Last week:
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| Suffolk told Gartner, “I think we have fundamentally failed on a
| worldwide basis as an IT industry to understand the cost of what we do.
| And I roundly blame Gartner for this, because you guys are the ones who
| come up with TCO [total cost of ownership] benchmarking. It has become a
| self-fulfilling prophecy.
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| “So, I go out and I pick boring desktop infrastructure. What price do you
| think the suppliers broadly pitch? You will not be shocked to know that
| it is somewhere around the Gartner TCO benchmark.”
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/230047/pc-deal-could-save-public-sector-billions.htm
Older:
“Microsoft did sponsor the benchmark testing and the NT server was better tuned
than the Linux one. Having said that, I must say that I still trust the
Windows NT server would have outperformed the Linux one.”
–Windows platform manager, Microsoft South-Africa
Reference: Outrage at Microsoft’s independent, yet sponsored NT 4.0/Linux
research
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