Comments on: Open Source Conference: Gartner Open Source Conference

By: Roberto Galoppini

Roberto Galoppini — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:16:15 +0000

Hi Savio,

you are definitely right, the Gartner magic quadrants & reports help decision makers, I am concerned because of the way Gartner decides who is in and who is out of the quadrant.

I expect IT managers and CIOs getting more and more get acquainted with Internet and the blogosphere, may be using ad hoc tools like Kipcast.

Anyway, I believe that for years the Gartners will still be playing their role, though. CIOs basing their decisions on Gartners’ scorecards won’t take full advantage of the huge amount of OSS available.

By: Nicholas Butler

Nicholas Butler — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:49:49 +0000

Thanks for the link and because of It I have discovered your article. I should point out though that I am in no way affiliated with Lugradio, its podcast or the “core lugradio community” . I attended because it was a community event and because of my own involvement with Ubuntu UK. If you would not mind disassociating the link I would be very much happier.

By: Savio Rodrigues

Savio Rodrigues — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:45:13 +0000

Hey Roberto,

There is a need for the Gartner’s of the world, as there is for the RedMonk’s.

I would say that a large majority of IT customers and decision makers don’t have the time to keep up with the rate & pace of software innovation. This is likely even more true for IT managers! The Gartner magic quadrants & reports help these decision makers get caught up to speed on relevant criteria before making a purchase decision.

We can’t expect folks to learn about & play with technology all day long - someone’s got to do real work!