Thursday 5 November 2009

The magic goes out of the "Magic Quadrants"

I believe there are many others like me who would swear by Gartner's Magic Quadrants.  Those small boxes made life so easy for us to convince our clients on the relative efficacy of systems and suppliers.

And now its legitimacy has been challenged.  ZL Technologies - a Florida based software vendor claims that the Magic Quadrants do not present a fair and accurate potrayal of the software market.  And they have a whole page dedicated to this law suit.  Apparantly it is attracting a lot of visits to the page (and to the company).

After reading through the ZLT's version, I decided to explore Gartner's site to read their side of the story.  Not surprising, nothing there!

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