https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-does-the-it-industry-conti...
https://www.horsesforsources.com/gartner_fail_automation-AI_...
The Gartner reports were complete and utter garbage, filled with factual errors. Looks like they were written by interns, regurgitating marketing material - completely removed from reality.
Since then, whenever I see somebody mention a Gartner report, I immediately dismiss that part of the argument.
> The second report ("1999 OS forecast: The Linux face-off") projects market share in server dollars for the next few years. This one even contains a pretty graphic. The Gartner Group finding is that Linux will fade from the scene following the release of the first service pack for Windows 2000.
> The third report ("Red Hat's future: Boxed in") concludes that Red Hat will fail to overthrow Microsoft by 2004, and suggests that Red Hat needs to find a more viable business model.
If you get a report from them on how the pitfals of setting Oracle's Spatial, it's probably good. If you get a cost benefit comparison of Oracle and Postgres, it's certainly trash. (Who am I kidding? They still insist Postgres doesn't exist.)
That said, none of the documents are worth the price you pay and the hassle of interacting with them.
Basically analysts mash up what vendors and customers tell them what they think. They have conferences with large enterprise customers and vendors sponsor those conferences. So there’s a element of indirect pay to play. Many companies use them to review contracts as well, so they know what kinds of deals are out there.
If you expect to understand technology from Gartner reports, that is dumb. But if you want to understand the market and offerings for large commercial/gov enterprise customers, they are a great resource. If you are a startup, you should not pay any attention to Gartner unless you are selling in that space.
In the case of this topic, the information that’s key to understand is that Gartner is getting feedback that their customers are adopting cloud services, but are seeking to optimize the spending, including with some of the smaller players in niche areas.
They are pretty shitty for that too. They only get anything passable if you are after the offerings of the specific companies that pay them for the publicity.