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Welcome to the IT-Director.com Hall of Flame, an insight into some of the more unusual (and often offensive) comments we receive in response to published articles.
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1. Vista-compatible Apps
Even the Vista-compatible apps I have do not load onto Vista, Vista is a real dog.
Date: 18th November 2007 | By: Givememymoneyback | Reply #14768?
3. Seagate Optimizes Drives for Digital Video Surveillance Systems
Didn't realise that you were so heavily PR ... a very similar
document was posted as a news release this week. Hardly independent
analysis!
Date: 10th October 2007 | By: Emma K | Reply #14611?
5. HP Software to acquire Opsware, and makes a loud cloud of smoke in the process
Get your facts right: Start by trying to spell the guy's name correctly. Its Andreessen, not Anderson. Also, learn to read: the Internet and IT environments are still growing (evidenced by analyst reports, ww server shipments, IT spending).
Date: 26th July 2007 | By: Bill | Reply #14393?
7. Software AG: integration of its webMethods acquisition into its portfolio
This site is in danger of becoming the Simon Holloway zine - is everyone else on holiday?
Date: 26th July 2007 | By: Bob | Reply #14400?
9. Book Review - More For Less
A thinly veiled attempt to create advertising revenue from amazon - a more substantial review would probably work better!
Date: 20th July 2007 | By: Heather | Reply #14383?
11. HP Software's service desk dilemma in Asia Pacific
That's awful advice. Your recommendation on how to counter "distraction and confusion" is to invest in an actual project, that will naturally produce the distraction and confusion that surrounds the start of any project. You are asking companies to incur the cost of considering alternatives, when the current situation is not yet clear. Six months is not a particularly long time for an installed service desk system from any vendor. Given your own facts - the impact of upgrading HP systems is not clear, Microsoft may be a stronger player soon, etc - the logical conclusion is "wait and see", not "spend on projects". This sounds like a blatant attempt by a consultancy firm to profit from FUD.
Date: 5th July 2007 | By: JD | Reply #14322?
13. Why Toshiba was zapped by the Blu-Ray
your an idiot yhe hd market is to small to call a winner you think you know what your talking about but you don't you should be alowed to post anything on the web your premature with your prodiksion the hd disc market is about 3% compared to dvd's stupid
Date: 23rd June 2007 | By: bla | Reply #14276?
this idiot couldn't have added more incorrect garbage, and flat out lies in this article.
Date: 22nd June 2007 | By: B Smith | Reply #14268?
Robin Bloor is an idiot. This format war is far from over. Blockbuster still carries HD DVD in at least 250 stores, as well as online, and has stated that they will look to carry HD DVD in the future.
Date: 22nd June 2007 | By: james | Reply #14262?
15. When will Apple Overtake Microsoft?
This guy is completely out of his mind. Moreover, Leopard is a total joke -- nothing more than the same old ugly girl with new makeup...and not even good makeup.
Date: 15th June 2007 | By: Seth | Reply #14231?
17. Software Development and the Rise of the Alpha Techie
What about the alpha-analyst? Huh? Get a real job.
Date: 30th May 2007 | By: Gary Long | Reply #14132?
19. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 latest draft
Should be POOR. Then you can say IT-Director.com has POOR design principles and POOR image.
Date: 6th June 2007 | By: BT | Reply #14156?
21. Appliance! What appliance? Sybase partners with Red Hat
This was a pointless, rambling piece.
Date: 5th July 2007 | By: BB | Reply #14324?
23. Power.org Hosts Software Summit
Analysis? I see no analysis in this article. It's written by someone who didn't attend, and just wrote some crap based on what he found on the web.
What a waste of time.
Date: 8th May 2007 | By: huh? | Reply #14051?
25. Vista Sales Disappoint Microsoft And Cheer Apple
The answer is very simple: copy much better Mac OS X than they have done! Microsoft is pathetic, they do not know even how to copy properly.
Date: 23rd April 2007 | By: iTD | Reply #13946?
M$ are No. 1 because they bully or buy-out competitors. Not any more, people are beginning to see that it is perfectly OK to use computers without touching Micro$oft.
Vista is a bloated copy of OS X, their security features are as useful as a paper fire door and the whole thing looks like a Fisher Price toy.
OS X is UNIX underneath. Open Terminal and you have the most powerful OS in the world. Oh yeh, you can run Windows as well if you have to, but why bother?
OS X is the future. It is not gimicky. If that's what you think, you obviously haven't spent any real time using OS X.
Date: 23rd April 2007 | By: Jamie | Reply #13921?
Umm, another Mac user - have they been brainwashed? Give me the versatility of a PC and a robust Microsoft OS any day. Vista is good - it just needs a chance to prove itself. I think over the long term the Mac users will come back to Microsoft - its a bit like people switching from BT to a cheaper service only to find that the novelty soon wares off.
Date: 23rd April 2007 | By: Trevor Kennings | Reply #13916?
27. New OpenSolaris Distribution for Developers
I used to think that this site had become a branch of Microsoft's media relations (or publicity) division. But with this article, it seems it's also now become an arm of Sun's marketing division.
Can you please leave the marketing blurb to the companies whose products you're pushing, or at least clearly mark any such market-ese as "commercial" so we know to avoid reading them? Journalistic ethics would require that as a minimum.
Date: 16th March 2007 | By: Muyiwa Taiwo | Reply #13748?
29. Hisoftware makes the web better
Interesting article, however, I think it still highlights clearly that they are still a few years behind Watchfire! They still don’t have mechanisms for managing the results, such as prioritization or issue management.
Date: 4th April 2007 | By: E | Reply #13859?
31. A vista of Apples, penguins and more
Don't worry, comments like these are paid by M$ :)
Date: 25th February 2007 | By: Daniel | Reply #13680?
33. Is Apple's iTunes Monopoly About To Die?
"To that you can add the fact that the iPhone doesn't allow direct download to the phone."
1. Apple will allow it. When the iPhone becomes available. Check-out their recent patent approval(s).
2. People want to own their music, thank you.
3. I hope they are paying you well to prostitute yourself. The author is quoted on their website.
4. £1.99 per week, give me a break.
Date: 15th February 2007 | By: Bryan TO CA | Reply #13602?
You A) clearly lack understanding of peoples music habits or B) Simply trolling for readers by playing devils advocate. People want the music they like. They DON'T want unlimited music that THEY DO NOT LIKE or have the time
looking for some new music that they do like.
Subscription is great for the the corporations involved but they ignore that the public has very little interest.
You don't have a clue, that's very clear.
Give Zune time it will make a move like the Xbox finally did, with XBOX360.
Date: 15th February 2007 | By: davew | Reply #13600?
35. Prediction: One day you WILL reduce total storage
Prediction: one day someone will have the nerve to break the deafening silence and tell you to quit behaving like an analyst and start thinking like a rational human being. in doing so you might just realise the stupidity of this question. Or perhaps the entire article was written with the thinly veiled guise of flogging another failing analst report! (Google around and you'll see that other analysts are giving their research away these days. Selling for £995 just reeks)
Date: 14th February 2007 | By: David Nocks | Reply #13569?
37. HP's Customer Dis-Service
I will be found dead before I ever buy another HP product! $500 stuck in an HP 2710 that is 1 year old and all customer service offers AFTER 3 HOURS on hold is to sell me a new unit....over my dead body! May this company continue on its road to Bankruptcy!
Date: 24th February 2007 | By: Cigar Dan | Reply #13675?
39. Buy Microsoft, it's your patriotic duty
Crap!!
In a profession where change is a goven and innovation is saught,
it amazes me to see these thing crop up everytime MS releases a
product.
Linux - who wants a clone of a 35 year old
operating system ? Freaking stupid !!
News Flash !! - software CHANGES because computers get faster
and cheaper, innovation in software design and programming goes on
DAILY, and the World continually comes up with new requirements! It
ain't your fathers mainframe or RISC box anymore folks!
Date: 6th December 2006 | By: James | Reply #13130?
Just say Linux.
The city of Munich in Germany has.
I would not buy a car that is faulty regardless how good it might
look.
Vista and the new office is overblown, very unsafe and when it
comes to value a rip off. Most people will have to update their
computer just to run it and to accommodate the never ending
security patches.
Date: 6th December 2006 | By: Chamelion | Reply #13124?
How talk about hate
Do you own shares in Apple or something?
Date: 5th December 2006 | By: SyN | Reply #13121?
41. Oracle data mining, not only good but affordable too!
oh, have u used Oracle Data Mining?
Oracle Data Mining is crap, holy s**t. I have worked on Oracle Data
Mining for 2.5 years, from ODM to JDM.
Only one word can describe it : RABBISH.
Date: 30th November 2006 | By: James | Reply #13085?
43. WebTrends, probably the best web analytics
Somebody give me a sick bag. If this is not a paid posting i
dont know what is. This is the most appalling sales letter i have
ever read.
Date: 17th November 2006 | By: john calcott | Reply #13036?
Were you paid by WebTrends to write this story?
Date: 16th November 2006 | By: John Jackson | Reply #13024?