While hanging around the O’Reilly booth during the Open Source Conference last week, I picked up a coupon for 30% off the cost of Open Source in the Enterprise. I thought, great, maybe I’ll shell out a few bucks to see what this is all about. I didn’t see that $399 price tag on a PDF download coming. Not only that, but apparently one can subscribe to Release 2.0 and receive a whole six issues for the low price of $495.

I suppose O’Reilly is targeting the same market as Gartner. Companies willing to spend what, to an individual, is a lot of money to have experts tell them what to think.