I totally agree with you here Neil.  The consulting/auditing cesspool is so
ethical, I would think more politicians would come from this area.  (Maybe
they wouldn't like the paycut...)

Did you read the Analyst Bio?

"Andrew Butler is a research director in Gartner's Research organization.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Butler worked for Hewlett-Packard for 14 years
in the United Kingdom and Germany, most recently as European marketing
manager for HP9000 midrange Unix servers."

It's one of those guys who answered the phone saying, "3000?  What's that?"

Anyway, I can restate Mr. Butler's opinion as such:

"We have many HP-UX consultants available."

Mark "I don't like to tell people I consult" Wonsil

> -----Original Message-----
> An astonishing state of affairs, in my opinion, and a lovely
> little business
> - the company paid handsomely for the audit, the Management Consulting
> division learned every innermost secret strategy for free, and then
> regurgitated the information back for another fee, not only
> to the company, but possibly to it's rivals.
> I have asked before how they make their money, but have never
> really found out.

> I can only assume that they are paid by companies like HP and
> IBM - the ones they write about.
>

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