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Hitler, Downfall and the Gartner MQ 5 Feb 2010 | 05:54 am
Jonny Bentwood has come up trumps on this one. This Downfall clip is overused, but is terribly appropriate in this instance and very justified. Certainly made me laugh out loud. I think this sums u...
Now Gartner are getting sued by ZL for their Magic Quadrant 21 Oct 2009 | 10:09 am
Interestingly, it appears that ZL (an email archiving vendor) are suing Gartner for loss of earnings due to their MQ This gives both credence to the weight that people (however misguidedly) put on th...
The Gartner bias issue has popped up again – where are the aliens? 14 Oct 2009 | 01:04 am
CarterLusher has leaped to the defence of Gartner following a post by Tom Bittman. Of more interest to me is the comments thread in Tom’s post, regarding the fact that the market is still confused re...
NeilWD and Dale Vile speak utter sense about Gartner 19 Aug 2009 | 11:00 pm
I’m back, (it’s been a LONG summer) I’m back for good reason, it is fantastic to see some analysts seeing through other people’s self-created hype. In this post, Neil highlights how disconnected fro...
Twitter honesty reveals Gartner Magic Quadrants for what they really are… 7 Apr 2009 | 04:12 am
Courtesy of Carterlusher (and compounded by him), finally it is proved by a Gartner analyst that MQs are worthless. Here Carterlusher shows the transcript of some tweeting by Gartner ‘Analyst’ French...
James McGovern on Transparency 20 Feb 2009 | 03:51 am
James makes a good point – how transparent are you? http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-come-redmonk-is-only-analyst-firm.html No matter how many times you tell me how much a client pays you do...
Lovely piece of bitching 19 Feb 2009 | 05:18 am
Vendors are biting back, and Gartner have the answers – an interesting little debate… http://blogs.gartner.com/andreas_bitterer/2008/12/28/setting-the-record-straight/
Irrelevance doesn’t pay 12 Feb 2009 | 05:59 am
So, now they are feeling the pinch. Gartner (amongst others) are cancelling conferences, summits, symposia, you name it. Why? Times are tough, people are looking to save money and your ROI is incre...
More guff 21 Oct 2008 | 09:03 pm
OK, so I’m back – sorry for the LONG absence, but other things took over my life. I’m back at another analyst conference (Burton Catalyst in Prague) and again I am so far underwhelmed. Just sat thro...
Naivety? 23 Jun 2008 | 09:36 pm
Mike Rothman in response to my post said that I showed a serious level of naivety? Am I naive or are the people who make their decisions based on the opinion of one analyst naive?
