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Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
Talkback After reading your piece "Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds" I'm left with a question: When was the last time Ovum analyst Gary Barnett used Linux or open source? Good evening, As a Linux migration specialist and open source...
[March 7, 2006, 18:39]
White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization
White Papers In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context...
[February 19, 2008, 5:49]
Microsoft's standardisation move divides experts
News But Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum, said on Tuesday he doubted that the move would result in the format becoming "truly open". It's a tactical move by Microsoft to give its proprietary document formats a glimmer of openness...
[November 22, 2005, 16:55]
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
News For companies like Microsoft the school market is important because they're leading innocent young minds to love Microsoft technologies," says Ovum analyst Gary Barnett. Barnett from Ovum lays the blame on the lack of availability of open source...
[March 7, 2006, 14:00]
Portable version of OpenOffice.org unveiled
News But 144MB is still too big, considering that many USB sticks only store 256MB, according to Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum. In my view it's too bloated to be genuinely portable," said Barnett.
[January 6, 2006, 16:20]
Firefox community weighs up IE 7 threat
News But Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum, thinks it is unlikely that Firefox will reach 25 percent market share that soon, as the initial download rate is unlikely to continue. Initial adopters of Firefox included many proponents...
[February 16, 2005, 15:15]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback On subsequent pages, the report gives a lot of quotes from one "Gary Barnett", from "Ovum", a person and company that I have never heard of. Either way, this does not speak well of Gary's technical knowledge or independance.
[April 21, 2005, 16:05]
Novell's mixed source stack boosts Linux
News Then the biggest area of debate was the cost of adoption, but that is largely moved on," said Gary Barnett, a research director at Ovum. Tackling this "is definitely important to the OS becoming a mature and non-controversial alternative," said...
[June 2, 2005, 13:35]
Consolidation 'likely' in European open source industry
News But Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum, said the open source service market is not sufficiently mature to require consolidation. said Barnett. Instead, Barnett claimed that any acquisition activity won't be due to consolidation...
[October 7, 2005, 17:40]
CA talks the open source talk
News CA should at least be praised for giving free access to Ingres even though it probably won't attract many new customers to the database, says Gary Barnett, research director at Ovum. Having garnered a reputation in the 90s for doing very little for...
[February 4, 2005, 15:15]
'Failing' SCO sees Linux licence revenue plunge
News SCO is failing," said Ovum analyst Gary Barnett, who was unimpressed by the performance of SCO Source. SCO has seen a sharp decline in income, as enterprises fail to be tempted by its Linux indemnification programme.
[September 9, 2005, 14:05]
Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
News Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum, wasn't impressed with Microsoft's latest weapon against Linux. If open source opponents are reduced to using that argument, open source is doing very well," said Barnett.
[February 7, 2005, 12:50]
Coders 'have support concerns' over open source
News Gary Barnett, research director at Ovum, said the issue of support is a valid concern for companies that are looking to use an open source product that does not have commercial support. Certainly these points have some merits," said Barnett.
[January 18, 2005, 14:00]
IBM brings its middleware to Linux
News Gary Barnett, research director at Ovum, said that the announcement was not a big surprise. Linux is one of IBMs core operating systems so I would expect them to be releasing major products on Linux," said Barnett.
[October 1, 2004, 12:40]
Open-source code finder aims to prevent lawsuits
News Gary Barnett, a research director at Ovum, said the vast majority of companies do not need such a product. However, Barnett agreed that the risk of litigation from open-source organisations against the breach of licences is likely to increase over...
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
Analysis: 'Baby Bills' solution has potential
News Gary Barnett, analyst at Ovum reckons all the plumbing is in place but says a break-up would be fraught with risks including a cut in R&D. Barnett sees the obvious benefit of splitting Microsoft into an applications division and an operating system...
[May 19, 1998, 15:12]
Open-source payroll application launched
News Gary Barnett, a research director at Ovum, said there is a good market for a reasonably priced payroll, although companies that have committed to large ERP installations are unlikely to migrate. There are lots of vertical applications that have...
[November 25, 2004, 14:50]
Linux kernel maintainer joins patent celebrations
News Gary Barnett, a research director at analyst firm Ovum, said he is not against software patents, but believes the EU must formulate a law that includes tests to see how inventive an idea actually is. Great news, absolutely fantastic news on the...
[February 3, 2005, 15:55]
MySQL 4.1 moves in on Oracle
News Gary Barnett, a research director at Ovum, thinks that MySQL has been following a good roadmap in terms of features, but is unable to compete with Oracle in the high-end market. MySQL does not have to achieve full parity with Oracle and DB2 to...
[October 26, 2004, 16:55]
Fledgling Thunderbird takes on Outlook
News Gary Barnett, a research director at Ovum, said that he thinks Thunderbird will do well, but it will take longer for it to make tracks in the market in the way that Firefox has. I believe it will be successful but it will be a slower burn than...
[December 7, 2004, 12:40]
