redmonk

I met James Grovernor, a cofounder of RedMonk, at an IBM Information Privacy retreat (in 2003 I believe).  His analyst firm had just gotten off the ground, and he was excited to tell everyone about the nexus that exists between Redmond and Armonk – hence the name.

What I thought as quite unusual then – and brilliant today – is their open source model for IT research.  Basically, anything they publish for general consumption is available for free with no strings attached.