Gartner Recommendations? (Score 2, Insightful)

To address the questions posed earlier in the thread, Yes Virginia, companies do pay attention to what Gartner says. As evidenced by the amount of salt my management places on getting good reviews by them, for many their opinion means alot. What I dont really understand is moreso than simply giving Linux a black eye, this is dragging down all *nix initiatives. I cannot see this seriously helping SCO's sales other than those simply buying licenses in fear of litigation. I can see many companies that are just now swimming out into Linux waters saying screw it to the entire *nix end of computing and staying within the warm fuzzy false safeness of MS technologies.