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Let's try the litmus test for enterprisey business bullshit : porridge ;
Recommendations for Users
* Look for a sustainable community that has a critical mass of skills
supporting porridge.
* Look for a cultural match between the porridge community and
your internal developers and user
Sorry, Alexander, I disagree. Gartner may sound creaky but under the starchy
language, this is pretty revolutionary advice.
Look for a sustainable community - yes, for any product, that's key.
Cultural match - that one is an interesting observation. Introducing open
source development in
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:51 PM, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, Alexander, I disagree.
What, is that allowed!? :)
Gartner may sound creaky but under the starchy
language, this is pretty revolutionary advice.
I can't agree with the revolutionary advice part; business leaders,
sure wish I could read the article without registering and purchasing it :-|
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=633035ref=g_sitelink
But that fact leads me to the thought that perhaps Gartner isn't as
revolutionary as one might think.
Cultural matches need to happen no matter the
But that fact leads me to the thought that perhaps Gartner isn't as
revolutionary as one might think.
Revolutionary *for Gartner* -- and therefore important in that sense, for
the people whose opinions are shaped by the Gartner Weltanschauung. These
people aren't reading NGC4LIB. (Um, neither
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:17 PM, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you think of Gartner (as I do) as a kind of IT-for-squares company...
useful information on some issues, hilariously tone-deaf on others (though
in a way that can be extremely useful if you're trying to decipher how
