____/ Robin T Cox on Thursday 03 April 2008 08:57 : \____
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:21:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Assume they mean OpenOffice? LXer cites it, so it seems like good news.
>> They still seem to be listening to Microsoft-funded shills called
>> Gartner.
>
> The UK Tory Party have already said that when they are elected they will
> promote a much wider use of open source software in government.
>
> http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=135394
> http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=135408
Also noteworthy from the article above:
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Suffolk told Gartner, “I think we have fundamentally failed on a worldwide
basis as an IT industry to understand the cost of what we do. And I roundly
blame Gartner for this, because you guys are the ones who come up with TCO
[total cost of ownership] benchmarking. It has become a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
“So, I go out and I pick boring desktop infrastructure. What price do you
think the suppliers broadly pitch? You will not be shocked to know that it is
somewhere around the Gartner TCO benchmark.”
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So do you see how Gartnersoft fixes the prices? Old quote:
“Microsoft did sponsor the benchmark testing and the NT server was better tuned
than the Linux one. Having said that, I must say that I still trust the
Windows NT server would have outperformed the Linux one.”
–Windows platform manager, Microsoft South-Africa
Reference: Outrage at Microsoft’s independent, yet sponsored NT 4.0/Linux
research
Also this:
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned
that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very
prickly to work with.”
–Microsoft, internal document
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