On 2006-06-28, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Yankee Group: Time Is Ripe For Oracle Linux
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>| Oracle Corp. building or buying its own Linux stack offers possibilities
>| that would allow the company to compete with established open-source
>| market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux, according
>| to an analyst.
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>| Yankee Group research fellow Laura DiDio estimates Red Hat already
>| owns between 75 percent and 80 percent of the commercial open-source
>| distribution market.
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> http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/189602096
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> Mandatory background:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
>| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
>| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
>| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
>| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
>| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
The questioning of her credibility and the characterization of her as
"a Microsoft shill" both resulted from her having no credibility due to
being a Microsoft shill.
Using studies funded by the monopolists she's shilling for, and using
questionable methods to gather her "facts" (sending question-and-answer
emails to company heads, performing online polls, etc) are the types of
things one might expect a shill to employ when working up "proof" to
support their pre-determined results. But they aren't the cause for her
being seen as a shill. That's solely due to her *being* one.
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