More Fairy Tale than outright lie.
Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT But...the Magic Quadrant...it's all a lie?? *sob* -------------------------- Sent using BlackBerry From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT To me, Gartner's stats are just derived from flawed research and easily subverted questions. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Rod Trent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Tada… Particularly Gartner’s, IMO… From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT Or just make them up…as 95% of all statistics are. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT You're going to want to check with the research firms: Gartner, IDC, Forrester, ITIC, etc (http://itic-corp.com/) Additionally, Google the question and see what references you find... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Oliver Marshall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Does anyone know of a good source of statistics about IT? I’m thinking of the kind of thing we can use in reports or to bring up on topics like “80% of companies see a return on investment from an increase in IT spend, 20% of companies without backup fail in a year, 40% of IT Managers go mad in the first year” that kind of thing. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
