The Hutton and Butler reports have already shown what a farce the notion of an independent report is in the political world. The Register gives an example from the commercial world.
What they told us:
An independent study for the London Borough of Newham by CapGemini found that migrating from Microsoft to open-source software would cost more in the than sticking with Microsoft.
What they didn't tell us:
The study was funded by Microsoft
The study was only supposed to look at the benefits of upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and was not intended to compare MS with open-source.
The only data about open-source costs was provided by Microsoft and not checked by the supposedly independent CapGemini.
The Register story has more juicy detail.
Friday, September 10, 2004
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