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[News] Pay-to-Say Forrester Praises FO$$

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Forrester projects growth in open source DBMS

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| Coming on the eve of OSCON in Portland next week, Forrester has published a 
| new report that estimates the current open source database market is $850 
| million, and that number will grow to $1.2 billion by 2010.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/07/forrester_proje.html

Maybe it's Sun that paid Ferrester this time around. In the past, Microsoft
paid Ferrester to publish anti-Linux papers.

Open-Source Support: The More You Know, The Better It Looks

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| What perpetuates this attitude towards open-source support? Judging from 
| another recent study, this one involving nearly 1,000 European Union public 
| administrators, it seems that the less one knows about open-source support 
| and training, the more likely one is to complain about it...   
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/opensource_supp.html

And Microsoft's persistent FUD on this is unlikely to help.

“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


Recent:

Microsoft tried to be Open but failed. Miserably.

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| In a nutshell, they are saying that they will not sue "hobbyist FOSS users
| and developers" but they will sue FOSS distributors and enterprise end-users
| who fail to obtain a patent license from Microsoft. This is no bogey man. Its
| quite clear in the announcement, and the BSA is pretty active in Malaysia,
| not hesitating in sueing end user companies.
|
| [...]
|
| Here was a golden chance for Microsoft to gain some precious goodwill with
| the Open Source Community. Instead they botched it up just like they did
| before, again and again, cementing their reputation as the biggest and
| baddest anti-FOSS company in existence today.
|
| How many other companies out there have such a anti-FOSS policies? Which
| company can be so unfriendly to their end users who prefer more choice? Why
| threaten when you should coax?
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/05/microsoft-tried.html


Shill season

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| It's often difficult to figure out the motivation behind a particular
| study - until one finds out who has commissioned and paid for it.
| The so-called tech consulting companies would love it if the consumer
| believes that they have conducted an "independent" study. The worrying
| thing is that not many people blow their cover.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8109/1090/
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