Dan,
Why did you feel it necessary to flame? It's quite clear from Mike's
response that he meant that we don't have to take the advice of shills
like those from the Gartner Group who profit from the
multi-thousand-dollar prices they affix to their "full reports." GG
has a clear motivation to suggest wide-ranging changes in OS and
applications in order to make their reports look like "must-have,"
"sexy" analysis, instead of the negligible fluff they usually are (I
have worked for a few companies who purchased such full reports,
knowing they were mentioned, and let me assure you that the practical
worth of the report, as compared with a free trade magazine review,
was $0).
Instead, Mike suggests, we will decide based on our PERSONAL
experiences and the other PERSONAL experiences of list members, as
well as independent trades, when making purchasing decisions. I agree
with him wholeheartedly.
On the other hand, I would NOT hesitate to blame Microsoft in another
way: for treating HTML mail as a value-added communications mechanism,
rather than as the giant security risk it really is, since this is how
Nimda gets started. Security-conscious MUAs don't let this happen; I
use The Bat!, which doesn't support "active content" or any other
bandwidth-destroying, time-wasting stuff, and I can be quite sure my
workstation won't be an unwilling participant in something like this.
Sandy
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