[Phoenix-pm] Gartner Connections and Richard Dice

[Scott Walters]

Ahh, Richard replied and it makes a bit more sense now.  He wants to
*speak* and do the imparting of whole formed opinions, specifically
in support of Open Source/Free Software.

-scott

On  0, Andrew Johnson <andypm at exiledplanet.org> wrote:
> 
>    Apparently, "Understanding the True Costs" of open source involves
>    paying just shy of $1600 to Gartner.  And apparently, you'll get good
>    advice like, "'By 2010, most IT organizations will have formal Open
>    Source management and acquisition strategies.'"  Yeah.  OK, _I'll_
>    give away some understanding about the true costs of open source:
>    save $1600 and don't listen to a thing Gartner says, because they
>    don't understand open source.
>    [aj]
>    
>    On 8/27/06, Scott Walters <[1]scott at illogics.org> wrote:
>    
>      Hi everyone,
>      Muahahaha!
>      Richard Dice, host of one of the previous YAPCs, leader of
>      Toronto.PM, and an active member of the Perl community, is
>      expect to be here Sept 27-29.  I'd like to call a social
>      meeting in his honor.  Also, he wonders, if I have any
>      Gartner connections to help get him into this conference:
>      [2]http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/os2.jsp 
>      I don't know whether I do or not -- do I?
>      Cheers,
>      -scott
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> References
> 
>    1. mailto:scott at illogics.org
>    2. http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/os2.jsp
>    3. mailto:Phoenix-pm at pm.org
>    4. http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/phoenix-pm

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