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« Previous EntriesEnterprise 2.0, All The Kings Men, Gartner, and The Coase Theorem
Monday, March 17th, 2008While reading another Gartner Smartner article this evening, I started thinking, “What went wrong over there? How did they become so insignificant? When I first started in IT, circa 1977, Gartner was basically the Huey Long of the IT analyst group (AG) business. I worked at Exxon at the time, and I […]
451 Are you a Redmonk or a Gartner?
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008A lot of people I have met over the last year keep telling me that the 451 group is one of the good guys. I have always enjoyed Matthew Aslett’s posts. I am very suspicious, however, when I notice that, for certain companies, I hear only the good and never the bad. Here […]
Barcamp - BarcampESM - Update #2
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Barcamp - BarcampESM.org
This is starting to look like a world class event. For the first time in the ESM industry, we will have sessions that include some of the top open source monitoring providers with two of the leading commercial monitoring providers talking about how to improve monitoring and ESM (”Monitoring: The good, the […]
This is a problem … Why?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Gartner warns of misguided virtualization strategies
However, virtualization has a dark side, according to Bittman. Virtualization increases service demands from the business, so IT needs to be ready. Virtualization eases the “friction,” or barriers to entry, of getting new capabilities from IT. When business units perceive that they can get new capabilities easily, they will start […]
Gartner Report Agent Vs. Agentless Monitoring
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I was going to hammer them but it’s really not a bad article. Very high level and probably not technically worth the money HP paid for it. However I am sure they didn’t pay for its technical merit.
How to Choose Agent-Based and Agentless Monitoring Solutions
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Captain Obvious, over and out
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Gartner - Software licensing costs to decline
Can You Say Tipping Point?
Friday, October 19th, 2007Microsoft- Ballmer shopping for open-source companies. Who’s for sale
Matt makes some suggestions such SugarCRM or even Novell. NOVELL… now we are talking more than a tipping point… maybe a black swan…
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The World is on Crack #4
Friday, October 19th, 2007So, I am brought in by a “Big Four” to help close a deal for an OS monitoring and services gig. Then, at the end of the meeting the customer starts to rant about how he has already spent a half-million dollars on a network management tool that doesn’t work. Furthermore, he says that […]
Out of the Mouth of Babes
Friday, October 19th, 2007Yesterday, I was telling my wife how sick I am of reading about companies that are in Gartner’s quadrant and what bull it all is. Then, my eight-year-old asks me, “What is Gartner?†So, I explain what it is and how it tries to predict what products are going to make money in the […]
Whurley v. HP
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Smack down Texas style. Swimming pools and movie stars. Texas tea. I can’t wait to see what HP has to say. You get ‘em, Whurley.
HP, You’re On Notice
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Gartner Identifies Five Major Trends and Ten Technologies
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Web 2.0
SaaS
Global-class computing
Consumerization of IT
Open-source software
“The five major discontinuities have the potential to completely disrupt vendor business models, user deployment models, whole market segments and key user and vendor brand assumptions,” said Tom Austin, a vice president at Gartner.
Gartner says five major trends will force IT organizations to change way they operate
Gartner’s top 10 technologies […]
Greg the Architect - Off the Grid
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007In this episode, Greg gets bent out of shape because he relied on “The Analyst Mystic Grid” to recommend a service monitoring and management software that wasn’t ready for the grown-up table. In the end, the analyst’s magic eight ball prevails. Can you say “Gartner”?
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They Might be Giants
Friday, September 21st, 2007Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.
By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code, according to Gartner …
Friday, September 21st, 2007Gartner forecasts yesterday’s weather (and dragonslayer) - Computerworld Blogs
Gartner’s survey shows 49.7% of open source usage is for “mission critical” applications, as compared to 59% for proprietary software and 58.5% for internal development.
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Gartner Proclaims AIX Will Die in 2009!
Friday, September 21st, 2007“IBM is involved in Linux development and working on improving that operating system. Why would they be doing that if Unix was their bread and butter?” he questioned.
Gartner: No New Unix Apps to Emerge After 2009
All kidding aside, they might not be to far off. If you listen to a Businessweek interview with […]
Services Baby Services #002
Monday, September 10th, 2007Is Dell (DELL) breathing down IBM’s (IBM) neck?
Dell, IBM, and EMC get it. Why don’t the VC’s?
Why Proprietary Vendors Won’t Open their Code
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I am sure that this question has many answers, but here are a few of mine.
Infrastructure 2.0
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Last Sunday, the day after BarCampNashville, I had lunch with Luke Kanies, the owner of Reductive Labs and the author of Puppet. It became a working lunch due to all my questions about his product. I first met Luke at OSCON 2007 during his Puppet session. I hadn’t planned to attend the Puppet session because […]
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 4)
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Are salesmen the root of all evil?
Let me start with an obligatory sales joke:
A sales guy dies and he meets St. Peter at the Pearlies. St. Peter tells him about this elaborate new system they have developed in heaven in which new arrivals get to choose one of three options to spend the […]
Things that make me go Huh #005?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Groundwork breaks 500th customer???
GroundWork’s Q3 Milestones Include Record Revenue, a Thriving Channel, and Groundbreaking Product Enhancements
Watch how many analyst groups regurgitate this press release. I am sure that most people know how press releases work. The firm that wants to tell a great story hires an expensive PR firm to push the […]
