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Zeichick’s Take: Novell is (was) super-stodgy; Microsoft, not so much


By Alan Zeichick


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May 9, 2011 —  (Page 1 of 2)
Microsoft is stodgy, but not very stodgy. But the company formerly known as Novell is super stodgy. Salesforce.com is straddling the line. And Google is the least stodgy of them all.

That’s the result of a highly nonscientific survey, conducted over the past couple of months, by yours truly. As you may recall from my Feb. 7 column, “Stodgy old Microsoft,” a radio analyst referred to the folks in Redmond that way during a story about their quarterly returns.

It’s time to share the complete results. Several hundred people filled out the survey, which was linked in my column, tweeted out and put on Facebook. Although there was no statistical rigor, the rankings are revealing.

Some folks commented, by the way, that I didn’t define what “stodgy” meant. That’s right: The question was simply, “Stodgy or not stodgy?” That was intentional, as I was wondering what you thought, without using my own definition or a definition that I might find somewhere on the Internet. You can have fun Googling/Binging the word yourself.

Now, as to the rankings: There were 32 companies listed in the survey. Let’s do a Gartner-inspired quadrant system here. The eight stodgiest organizations, who we’ll call "super stodgy," were:

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Ouch for Novell, Symantec and HP—they were even worse than “big iron” companies like SAP, CA Technologies, Oracle, Accenture and IBM. But frankly, nobody should be proud to be in this category.



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05/10/2011 10:29:12 AM EST

And how stodgy is this article? To print it out would be a waste of paper, as it is even on-line it is a stodgy waste of bandwidth and disk space! Pointless nonsense!

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