Re: One billionth mouse...

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

They do research alright: They research how much money they can make
from shilling for vendors x,y,z.... and then contact them to get them to
pay, so that they can feature them in their "research".

What do you expect of a company headquartered in the same place as a lot
of the hedge fund industry?

Seriously: given the mess we're in thanks to the ratings agency and
securities "research", why anything with a byline of Stamford CT is
considered anything other than a paid shill is beyond me.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of William Lefkovics
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 6:24 PM
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] One billionth mouse...
>
> I concur from a non-vendor perspective, dating back to January 2001. I
> think
> they don't do research as much as WAGs.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On
> Behalf Of Alex Eckelberry
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:45 PM
> To: Tomas L. Byrnes; Gregory Hicks; funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] One billionth mouse...
>
> Yes, yet another bozo idiotic prediction from a firm that is only
> capable of
> accurately predicting its own cashflow -- from the vendors that pay to
> get
> on its magic quadrants.  Gartner is quite simply the most patently
awful
> analyst firm I have ever dealt with as a vendor -- rude doesn't even
> approach a description of this awful firm.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Tomas L. Byrnes
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:13 PM
> To: Gregory Hicks; funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] One billionth mouse...
>
> Hmm, mice on topic ;-)?
>
> Gartner, that analyst firm that predicted, in 2003, that IDS would be
> dead
> by 2005?
>
> http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views/article.php/2228631/IDS-is-Dead---
-
> Long-Live-IDS.htm
>
> Dunno about the rest of you, but my little piggies are humming along
> nicely.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> > On Behalf Of Gregory Hicks
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:26 PM
> > To: funsec () linuxbox org
> > Subject: [funsec] One billionth mouse...
> >
> > From the BBC:
> >
> > * Firm makes one billionth mouse *
> >
> > A Silicon Valley company has hailed as a major landmark the production
> > of their one billionth computer mouse.
> >
> > Logitech's description comes at a time when analysts claim the days of
> > the mouse are numbered.
> >
> > "It's rare in human history that a billionth of anything has been
> > shipped by one company," said Logitech's general manager Rory Dooley.
> >
> > "Look at any other industry and it has never happened. This is a
> > significant milestone," he told the BBC.
> >
> > But sounding the death knell for the device is Gartner analyst Steve
> > Prentice who said "the mouse will no longer be mainstream in three to
> > five years."
> >
> > [...snip...]
> >
> > Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7751627.stm
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Gregory Hicks                           | Principal Systems Engineer
> >                                        | Direct:   408.569.7928
> >
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> > stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell
> >
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> >
> > "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
> > be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton
> >
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