[techpop10]

Gartner is a very expensive and unreliable CYA resource. This may sound brutal, but take a look at their authors. Most have never actually worked with the technology they are writing about and almost never have hands-on experience. They are pundits, on the sidelines, talking to a very small subset of users and making very broad conclusions. Often times the executives (and their subordinates) that rely on their reports are more knowledgable about the technology. Some even speculate that the more vendors pay for their consulting services, the better they write about you. I'm not convinced it's pure payola as much as it just bad analysis.