"When a Forrester Research representative emailed with the following survey highlights, I was more than a little surprised..." there are some interesting points raised in the comments,

Forrester Research has crafted its own "Five Stages of Open Source Adoption," as published recently in the May 15, 2009, edition of SD Time

Forrester Research suggests that we’re at the front end of a long cycle of open-source infrastructure and application adoption.

For many years this so-called ‘research’ group has been carrying out anti-Linux studies (read: manufactured publications for clients) that had been commission by Microsoft. Even recently, The Yankee Group’s founder called open source “a religion” and mocked it for some kicks.

Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts.

Microsoft is again pretending that it does not tolerate the very same practice it thrived in; Pequot-Microsoft story returns

A glimpse at some detailed notes for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, including "Get the Facts"

Forrester's FOSS-hostile survey leaves many questions unanswered

A Dell executive said that his company's Linux netbook returns are roughly equivalent to those for Windows-based netbooks, says an industry report. The remarks were in response to Microsoft's COO Kevin Turner, who gave a speech claiming Linux netbook returns were four or five times higher.