[thelist] internet consultants?

aardvark wrote:

>       "Your sites will end up being less competitive overnight," Plummer said,
> adding that a complete ban on all mobile script capabilities could lead to a Web
> presence that does not permit online chats or the filling out and sending of
> online forms.
> 
> so, the GartnerGroup seems to think forms can't be handled without JavaScript?
> or that pages will become less interactive?

I (and i think many of us) would love to grill the consultant that came
up with that clever conclusion.

This *totally* ties in with a discussion that some of us are having on
the admin list about 'experts' trying to single-handedly define what is
actually happening on this great thing called the Internet. Most of them
dont have a #!@#$!@!# clue. The people they *should* be asking are
people that frequent this list, and others like it. *We* are the experts
of the Web, not Joe Double Breasted Suit on Madison Avenue that ghost
writes books and official Web studies in their spare time.

> i met with a prospective client today who tried to grill me about search
> engines... it seems i'm the only person who gave him real answers, as well as
> references to check out... all the other consultants either promised a top-10
> ranking, or changed the subject - all of them were from the big national
> consulting firms...
> 
> does anybody else see this kind of misinformation coming from the big 6?

IMO, they tell companies what they want to hear. If the rage this week
is Apache vs. IIS, they'll have 20 conclusive 'reports'; 10 saying that
IIS is superior, 8 saying Apache, and 2 saying the the market share for
both concludes that e-business ISV's, ASP's, and ISP's are leveraging
existing application technology with knowledge managment tools and
data-warehouse results.

If it looks like shit and it smells like shit.. mmmhmmm

They say what companies want to hear, and sit on the fences like no
others.

.djc.