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Roberto Galoppini 7:39 pm on May 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply
Tags: AndreaDiMaio, MichaelSilver, NikosDrakos, Open Source Gartner

Europe, Gartner and Open Source
Few days ago the Italian MEP Marco Cappato made public a EC report
analyzing the feasibility of a migration to open source software on desktop workplaces.

The study was conducted in 2005, and contains two deck of slides from Gartner’s analysts Michael Silver and Nikos Drakos. Both presentations are worth reading, even if some guesses are not supported by facts.

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- Andrea Di Maio 9:23 pm on May 25, 2009 Permalink
  
  Thanks for pointing to my blog post. For your information Gartner presented open source as a disruptive innovation back in 2003-2004. And we’ve paid attention to open source for a long time. Jst, we’ve tried to keep a balanced view amidst strong opposition and religious fervor.
- Roberto Galoppini 5:32 pm on May 26, 2009 Permalink
  
  Hi Andrea,
  
  I am glad you are joining the conversation. I pointed to your blog post because I think that the “easiness” of open source procurement is too often under considered.
  
  About disruptive innovation what I said that Silver’s presentation missed to look at OOo from that perspective, it wasn’t a general assumption about Gartner’s vision on disruptive innovation.
  
  I am in the OOo community from 7 years now, but I am often speaking about what OOo is still missing on the business dimension. So said, Silver’s take on OOo is proven to be wrong, and I think Gartner is authoritative enough to tell its clients when it was right and when it was dead wrong.
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