Giga's research, really? GIGX traded at $4 5/8 today, for a total volume of 800 shares. Up and down since 1996 (first bulletin board, now the counter), it's public entrance (founded by two people in 1995). Don't you think there's a possibility that Giga wants to be put on the map by coming out with an obnoxious report about the fastest growing PC company in the world? Now the world knows about Giga.
Giga calls their approach "hollistic". What is this? This is solid data? Hollistic data? Who wrote this, Carl Rogers? My own interpretation regarding their methodology (I have some right to speak here relative to decision science, although my education is more math/calculus based): it is "modeled data based on personal interpretation", i.e., it is completely biased toward the person doing the questionnaire and the interpreting. The last time I heard the term "hollistic" was from a nature food store who was promoting the new age.
From their web site:
Giga says it offers "living research." What does this mean, and how close to information and knowledge-sharing nirvana can a client actually get?
Knowledge sharing nirvana? What the hell? And you're basing your IT decisions on knowledge sharing nirvana? What kind of IT person are you?
Giga has a total of 118,000 licensed users. Compare that to IDC's 15 million or so. Their revenue did increase over the last few quarters, but the stock market obviously doesn't currently trust their approach to data gathering, otherwise the stock price would be significantly more than it is now.
Personally I think they're looking for publicity. It works nearly every time.
More later when I have time.
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