Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received
On 6/27/06, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the magazine ads that read: Microsoft SQL Servers provide us with a 99.98% uptime* then you read the 2pt font footnote and it says Results not typical Jason Ha! What a perfect response that counter-ad would make! I love it! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received
Ted Roche wrote: You mean like Whats the price per transaction comparison of a cluster of commodity Dell servers running Windows against a $10 million mainframe running Linux? Ignoring, of course, that while Linux could run on the servers, too, WIndows couldn't run on the mainframe. And ignoring any other parameters like TCO, reliability, etc... http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/23/2027229from=rss http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1782587,00.asp I like the magazine ads that read: Microsoft SQL Servers provide us with a 99.98% uptime* then you read the 2pt font footnote and it says Results not typical Jason ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received
On 6/23/06, Bill Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there was an long article in a magazine some years back -- I think it was Upside magazine (since defunct) -- that talked about how large IT companies would give money to IT research groups for a study. A study to make the large IT company look good in some fashion. You mean like Whats the price per transaction comparison of a cluster of commodity Dell servers running Windows against a $10 million mainframe running Linux? Ignoring, of course, that while Linux could run on the servers, too, WIndows couldn't run on the mainframe. And ignoring any other parameters like TCO, reliability, etc... http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/23/2027229from=rss http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1782587,00.asp -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
[NF] Gartner mailing I received
Got a mailing from Gartner the other day in the US mail. It's for their 2006 Gartner IT and Software Asset Management Summit coming up in Orlando. The thing that I thought was funny was the top right corner blurb entitled Why Gartner? : Each year, more than 30,000 IT professionals find solutions and enhance their knowledge at a Gartner event. So is that what happened long ago when Gartner did that nasty deed to the Fox? eg ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received
MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: Got a mailing from Gartner the other day in the US mail. It's for their 2006 Gartner IT and Software Asset Management Summit coming up in Orlando. The thing that I thought was funny was the top right corner blurb entitled Why Gartner? : Each year, more than 30,000 IT professionals find solutions and enhance their knowledge at a Gartner event. So is that what happened long ago when Gartner did that nasty deed to the Fox? eg Well, there was an long article in a magazine some years back -- I think it was Upside magazine (since defunct) -- that talked about how large IT companies would give money to IT research groups for a study. A study to make the large IT company look good in some fashion. Now the IT research company is in a bind -- it needs the money...so the IT research companies would simply parrot what the benefactor wanted to hear. Both win -- the research company got paid and the benefactor got to say a leading independent researcher has determined that up is down or whatnot. Did that happen with VFP/Gartner in 1995? The timing is suspicious but leave that aside for the moment. What isn't suspicious is MSFT's response to the VFP slam -- nothing. They did nothing. What happened when Gartner slammed .NET because of hidden support costs? The next day MSFT was issuing a release disputing the findings... Bill Anderson ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
