Rob Enderle

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Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is widely quoted as a technical and legal analyst in the information technology industry. Microsoft and SCO Group are among his clients.

Enderle has surpassed most analysts in stirring up industrywide controversy. Much of the controversy began with a single market forecast Enderle published in 1994. At the time, he worked at Dataquest (acquired by Gartner). One of his research areas was the client operating system market. He published a five-year forecast, predicting a market share gain for Microsoft Windows and market share declines for the original Mac OS, Unix, Novell NetWare, and IBM OS/2.

Enderle has been critical of Apple Computer and Linux, as well as Unix and the open source/free software movements in general. In particular, he believes that Linux is a “free-software scam,” [1] and he has compared some Linux advocates to terrorists, predicting that “one of them — or perhaps a group of them — will go too far at some point and do significant damage to the open-source movement, the ongoing litigation with SCO or their employers.” It is for these reasons that Enderle has been called "a Microsoft shill" by critics.[2]. Nevertheless, Enderle has been a featured speaker at Linux conferences [3].

Enderle is most infamous for predicting the death of the Macintosh more often than any other industry observer, predictions which have yet to come to pass. [4]

Before founding the Enderle Group, Mr. Enderle was a founding analyst at Giga Information Group (acquired by Forrester Research), Dataquest (acquired by Gartner), IBM, ROLM (acquired by IBM), and The Walt Disney Company.

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Note: Not to be confused with author Robert Charles Enderle. The two men are not related.

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