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Meta Group roasts Linux on mainframes
News Market research company Meta Group has something to say about the current growth of Linux on mainframes: Don't believe the hype. In a report published this week, Meta Group said that while mainframes running Linux have some advantages in the short...
[May 10, 2002, 16:11]
Gartner's dire predictions tempered by META group
News Software costs will continue to increase but not at the rates projected in recent industry reports, according to research firm META Group. However, Kevin McIsaac, META Group's research director for Asia-Pacific, said the cost increase would be much...
[November 29, 2004, 8:30]
Featuring META Group: Coordinating Change Management and Requirements for Business Adaptability and Improved Life Cycle
White Papers META Group research indicates that approximately 60%-70% of IT project failures occur directly as a result of poor requirements gathering, analysis, and management. G2000 organizations increasingly seek the benefits of coordinating more effective...
[April 19, 2006, 0:00]
Companies warned on IM dangers
News A report issued on Thursday by Meta Group found that 57 percent of the people surveyed at 300 companies worldwide use IM at work for personal chitchat more often than for job-related communications. Only 3 percent and 5 percent of the companies...
[November 12, 2004, 8:30]
Oracle price hike irks customers
News A pricing disagreement between Oracle and some of its database software customers has IT analyst firm Meta Group urging customers not to pay the database software maker additional licensing fees. None of them have contained provisions of that sort...
[March 20, 2002, 9:38]
Gartner gobbles up rival
News Information technology research firm Gartner on Monday said it will acquire fellow research outfit Meta Group for $162m in cash in an effort to spur growth. In 2003, Meta Group had revenues of $122m and lost $4m.
[December 30, 2004, 8:55]
Meta: It's ok to use Linux
News Companies should proceed with current or planned Linux projects despite the SCO Group's move to curb usage of the popular open-source platform, says Dr Kevin McIsaac, research director for Asia-Pacific at Meta Group.
[May 15, 2003, 8:46]
IT workers' spirits hit all-time low
News Morale among IT workers has dipped to an all-time low, even though demand for certain skills is rising, according to a new study from Meta Group. However, the overall loss of employees seems to be slowing, according to Meta Group.
[June 10, 2004, 9:20]
Firewall market forecast to flare up
News The market for firewall software and devices will jump 25 percent in the next two years to nearly $2.5bn (£1.45bn) in worldwide sales, research firm Meta Group has predicted in its latest report. While almost every large and mid-sized business...
[December 3, 2003, 9:55]
Outsourcers need more than technology - study
News Research firm Meta Group studied 15 companies in North America that provide outsourcing services. The outsourcing providers -- which included IBM, Accenture, Electronic Data Systems and Hewlett-Packard -- are all technically competent, Meta analyst...
[January 16, 2004, 9:20]
Time for CRM to live up to its promise
News Meta Group, interpreting new survey results, has called most efforts "extremely tactical with a weak focus on CRM as a change management activity". According to Ashim Pal, International VP for CRM at Meta Group, most user organisations don't have...
[November 29, 2002, 11:43]
Australian IT execs suffering 'information fatigue'
News John Brand, Meta Group senior programme director, today said that emotional and psychological conditions such as "change-rage" and "information fatigue" are now commonplace throughout the industry, as its workforce adjusts to new global market...
[March 24, 2003, 8:47]
Tech salaries defy slump
News The latest figures from Meta Group's 2003 IT Staffing and Compensation Guide, which polled companies in 14 industries across 40 countries, show salaries in IT have continued to rise over the past year, against a backdrop of declining overall...
[April 4, 2003, 8:51]
Wireless business takes off
News Wireless and mobile business transactions will increase considerably over the next few years, as enterprises start looking at adding wireless extensions to their existing infrastructure so as to deliver business-critical solutions, said research...
[September 19, 2001, 10:38]
Red Hat sees no threat in UnitedLinux
News Q: In a study released late January, [the analyst firm] Meta Group revealed that participants most often mentioned the cost factor as the main argument Linux has going for it. The Meta Group portrays one of your main allies, Sun, as simultaneously...
[March 5, 2003, 13:12]
Outsourcing grows - but deal size shrinks
News The research, by analyst firm Meta Group, claims 80 percent of organisations will outsource at least one function by 2005. Dane Anderson, senior research analyst at Meta Group, said in the report: "Although outsourcing is clearly a strategic...
[August 12, 2004, 17:30]
Microsoft expected to offer Linux software
News By 2006 or 2007, Linux will run on 45 percent of new servers, Meta Group predicted in a study released to clients on Monday. We think Linux server stuff is going to be huge, and we don't think that's something Microsoft can walk away from," said...
[December 10, 2002, 9:02]
Outsourced work 'late and over budget'
News The research was commissioned by Compuware and conducted by Meta Group, which quizzed 150 CIO-level executives in the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Peter O'Neill, VP of consulting at Meta Group, told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com that...
[June 15, 2004, 11:35]
Studies blame WAP for mobile phone woes
News The Meta Group found between 80 percent and 90 percent of corporate customers of WAP phones have "indicated a wholly unsatisfactory experience with the level of effort required to obtain information exceeding the threshold for perceived value.
[May 25, 2001, 9:31]
Microsoft and Sun in new clash
News I think they [Microsoft] will have real traction with this product," said Meta Group vice president Will Zachman. But Meta Group's Zachman said IBM's decision to support SOAP and other, related Microsoft-backed standards, could give Microsoft a leg...
[December 13, 2000, 8:35]
