Your representation of Nemertes is inaccurate. Our model is that we have a base of clients who subscribe to our research and advisory services. Our clients include users, makers of, and investors in, technology. Specifically, they include the IT departments of Fortune 200 enterprise organizations, vendors and service providers, not-for profits, financial services firms/investors, and a couple of publications. We base our insights on best practices which we uncover while conducting our benchmarks. Clients pay to have access to our data, our insights, and us–our data comes from the research projects that we choose to undertake, based on our own best judgment on what makes sense. Again, the cost is shared across a portfolio of players who have diverging agendas, a range of interest levels in any individual topic, and most importantly do NOT have line-item veto (or rights of approval) on our topic selection, process, methodology, or findings. All of our clients have exceedingly different agendas, which generally conflict with each others’. Our role is not to serve any one agenda, but rather to provide objective data that can be used by all.

I urge your readers to read our report and come to their own conclusions:

FAQ: http://nemertes.com/internet_infrastructure_study_2009_frequently_asked_questions_faq

Report: http://www.nemertes.com/studies/internet_interrupted_why_architectural_limitations_will_fracture_net

Ted Ritter
Nemertes Research