Why is There Near Radio Silence by Vendors Criticizing Gartner?
… help customers select the right application for their needs and that buyers are continually guided to inappropriate applications. They also know how easy it is for unscrupulous vendors to trick Gartner, having Gartner esteem trendy or hot topic technologies that are irrelevant or of little relevance to the task at hand in each software category.
This forces vendors to follow these pathways of development that area dead-end or of marginal benefit, not because of any evidence that they are necessary or beneficial and therefore a good use for development effort, but because the marketing department of the least scrupulous …