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May 26, 2005

Disecting the Magic Quadrant

While speaking on technology portfolio management at the Wilshire/DAMA conference this week, questions about what's behind the famed "Magic Quadrant" came up. Now I certainly don't want to bash Gartner or other analyst firms outright. What they've done to keep vendors somewhat veridical and help IT organizations think through issues is admirable. It's just that their speculative, subjective method is seen increasingly as sub-optimal, particularly when pitted the collective experience of actual in-the-trenches IT professionals.

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