It's a CYA thing (Cover Your A$$)
M$ commissions these companies to do "favorable" writeups so that a 3rd
party has data regarding the "favorable" finding. This sets the field
so that when a CIO buys into the techology (giving money to M$) and the
technology fails, underperforms, or ends up costing more than budgeted,
his job isn't on the line because of this data. They either layoff
someone else or cut the budget somewhere else.
Believe me, this happens everywhere. In graphic media, print media,
regular politics, hollywood, etc. If you give the reporter gifts,
you'll be reported on favorably.
Nobody of merit really gives these any merit but the CEO's do so that
the shareholders are happy.
plug@geckohost.com wrote:
>>Thought this might be entertaining.
>>
>>
>
>So lemme get this straight .. Microsoft commissions Forrester Research to
>go out and find a handful of companies (7 .NET and 5 J2EE/Linux) and then
>based on interviews, comes up with a theoretical situation where the
>Microsoft platform is better?
>
>Why does Microsoft feel that their technology is superior to that of
>Oracle and BEA? There are many global 500 corporations rely on Oracle &
>BEA .. must be a reason beyond simply cost. (check out oracle.com &
>bea.com)
>
>I like the plug for using OpenOffice.org inplace of Microsoft Office.. :)
>Perhaps OpenOffice.org truly is becoming the "killer application" that
>will get companies to realize that OSS is not only a viable replacement
>but in many ways, superior to Microsoft's products.
>
>Joe
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