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title: Open Source Analysis and Open Gardens
date: 2006-06-28T19:10:00Z
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[Open Gardens: Opengardens, walled gardens and mobile web 2.0](http://opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2006/06/opengardens_wal.html "Opengardens, walled gardens and mobile web 2.0")

I hadn’t thought of RedMonk as an “open garden” before. But that is of course what we are, unlike the Walled Gardens of most of our competitors. If developers, operators or anyone else wants to come and wander around you’re more than welcome. There is plenty of great content – mostly over at [People Over Process](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/) and [tecosystems](http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/).

However other analyst open gardens are emerging too. Alex Fletcher is beginning to push the narrative, in pieces such as this [one](http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2006/06/industry_analys.html) and this [one](http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2006/06/industry_analys_1.html).

Note to Alex: you are in good company. Note to everyone else- Alex is trying to establish a new analyst firm only examining open source technologies. Why not [go](http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/) and give him some encouragement in the form of comments…

Stephen on blog-based analysis – [Not Such a Silly Idea Any More](http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001800.html). Or [Open Source, Meet RedMonk. RedMonk, Meet Open Source](http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000409.html)
Me on the industry analyst business as a protection racket: [Things To Do in the Analyst Business When you are Dead](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000404.html).