Really, it come down to this. Most of us will create a
report with that support their bias. Given that this is
the norm no matter who is the sponsor you will always see
this form of Bias in any report. How many times have we
seen an official Microsoft reports stating Unix out
performs Windows in any given field of computing? In university to excell in your degree students are encouraged to generate essays which cater towards the ego and bias of the Lecture and tutors. How do we ever remove this Bias from reporting?
The answer is we can't it is human nature to be bias. Reports from organisations such as Aberdeen are just there
to convince non-IT professionals that one company is better
and produces better software. We know if we do our own due dilligance we will find that Aberdeen report is to contary
to Actual fact. Given that Aberdeen is confused about what is an OS and what is an application. Up until I see an unbias report, I will continue reading what these
"experts" have to say and have a little chuckle.

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