[ Thanks to Case Roole
for this link. ]
“From the look of events over the weekend Microsoft would appear
to have appointed Stan Laurel as VP i/c propaganda. What else
can you say when Microsoft’s famous Linux Myths Web page references
a stack of “Gartner” reports questioning Linux’s viability, and
then the reports turn out to have been written by er,
Microsoft?“
“Actually they’re only maybe written by Microsoft, because
although Gartner claims they are, Gartner also, er, claims they’re
not. Well, not exactly anyway. But we’ll get back to that – the
easiest way into this ludicrous morass is to start at Linux Myths
and work backwards.”
“At time of writing Linux Myths included a short section headed
“Gartner Group Reports.” Three were listed: Will Linux be viable
competition for Windows desktops/; 1999 OS Forecast: the Linux
Face-off; and Red Hat’s Future: Boxed in. Briefly, the reports
conclude that Linux isn’t a serious competitor on the desktop, that
it won’t gain acceptance as a substitute for Unix and Windows in
the near term, and that Red Hat’s “future success is not a foregone
conclusion.” No, we don’t know why they bothered with that last one
either.”