ITWorld: Microsoft Report Prompts Forrester Policy Change

“Forrester Research Inc. has changed its policy toward
vendor-sponsored research following last month’s publication of a
controversial Microsoft Corp.-funded study that compared the cost
of developing applications on Linux and Java to a Microsoft-based
approach…

“‘We will no longer accept paid for, publicized product
comparisons,’ Colony said in an interview. ‘The best example of
that would be the Microsoft report…'”

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