I was reading James Governor's blog earlier today (essential reading I'd suggest) and was struck by how he describes RedMonk:
"Other analyst firms primarily target sell-side or buy-side (the buyers or sellers of technology). We really don’t see the world that way. RedMonk’s core constituency is “make-side“: the makers and doers, hackers and players. They might work at vendors, at dotcoms, at service providers, or traditional enterprises. Open source and web oriented technologies are the bridges between them. Industry analysts they really need to be advocates to be effective. We are not user advocates. We’re not vendor advocates. We’re maker advocates."
James, I like it. And you have inspired me to make my first blog post of 2008.
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not sure what point struck me most..
a) the make-side analysis. Good thinking and targeting by RedMonk but I feel lots of analysts target this audience but probably not as exclusively as James et al.
b) you have made a blog post
Personally - i think the latter was the real reason I was shocked this morning. Happy 2008
Thank you Jonny :-) And to you.
"Make-side"? Isn't that just a euphemism for suppliers?
James says "They might work at vendors, at dotcoms, at service providers, or traditional enterprises."
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