>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).
yes, of course, GG and every company has an agenda to make more money,
which is completely legal. MS's agenda is to continue to leverage their
desktop monopoly to destroy all competition in all sectors they choose,
which is illegal and of which they have been convicted on appeal
7-2. Anything the GG wants to say against MS is fine with me.
Certainly MS has caused all of us to lose 1000's upon 1000's of $ over the
years supporting their 1000's of bugs and vulnerabilities, for free.
But of course we all make our own decisions about what we want to run,
without paying any GG a penny.
Len
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