sirhc.us maxim.us » Gartner http://sirhc.us the pathological prattle of a primal perl programmer Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:04:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 O’Reilly, the New Gartner http://sirhc.us/oreilly-the-new-gartner/ http://sirhc.us/oreilly-the-new-gartner/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:54:43 +0000 Chris http://sirhc.us/journal/?p=308 Continue reading →]]> 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.

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