Gobar Gas

Magic Quadrant for Blogs

April 14th, 2006

My company was evaluating some vendors for some PM software. Multiple vendors came in to show their stuff off. What struck me was that they *all* showed off a Gartner’s Magic Quadrant chart which showed *them* as the leader - i.e. out as far North-East as possible.

How could this be? The vendors couldn’t have been lying or fabricating outright. And Gartner can’t be providing the same magic quadrant with different versions for different vendors. I think (but can’t be sure now: sleep strikes me during ppt presentations esp when someone says ‘Gartner’) that the only way this could have been was that the charts had different X/Y axis variables. Everybody is good at something so based on what axes Gartner chose, any vendor could be the Magic Quadrant leader.

I’ve decided to form a new company: Fartner ™. Our first study was a Magic Quadrant for Blogs. Here’s the result: you are reading the pre-eminent blog on the Web. Congratulations!

Disclaimer: please pay no more attention to the exact location of other blogs on this chart than you would to any other Gartner chart.

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