[Ipg-smz] Magazine Article - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2019-12-26 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

[Sharon Fisher]

Vendors think everything is pay to play, including magazines, which is
where this discussion started.

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 2:46 PM Alan Zeichick via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> It is totally pay to play. Vendors call it the Gartner Tax.
>
> -A
>
>
> > On Dec 29, 2019, at 4:21 PM, sjvn via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2019-12-29 at 10:03 -0500, Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz wrote:
> >> The Magic Quadrant racket is especially galling and subjective, and
> >> if you're not paying Gartner to understand your organization, then
> >> you're unlikely to have much movement. Only very rarely will a non-
> >> payer move in a quadrant.
> >
> > I have been told on the qt by several former Gartner analysts that the
> > Magic Quandrant is pay for play. I'm sure that comes as no surpirse to
> > anyone here.
> >
> > Steven
> > --
> > Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
> > CBS/ZDNet, Contributing Editor: http://goo.gl/FkYasd
> > ComputerWorld, Columnist: http://goo.gl/c02Km0
> > QOTD: “Bad things don’t happen to writers; it’s all material.”—
> > Garrison Keillor
> >
> >
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