Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
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 Ro

Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received

2006-06-27 Thread Jason
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 ignor

Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received

2006-06-24 Thread Ted Roche
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 co

Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received

2006-06-23 Thread Bill Anderson
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

[NF] Gartner mailing I received

2006-06-23 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
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