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Gartner agrees - monocultures are harmful

Maybe to atone for their series of ZDNet articles, CNet are reporting that they have seen a Gartner paper that broadly agrees with the Geer report. In the article, Bob Muglia stands canute-like against the tide but as I said on Sept 26, the monoculture threat seems self-evident and the principle seems to have historic and scientific precedent. Back in the days when IBM was pretending not to be a monopoly they used to compete against themselves when no-one else could do so effectively - maybe Microsoft should do that?

Update:On the other hand, Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter doesn't get it. He thinks the discussion is about recommending to individual users what to do. Wrong. The discussion is a broader one, about the marketplace. Individual users should indeed continue to indulge in the best practices he describes.

posted at 2:29 AM (UK) | |