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Hey, Gartner: You Blew It
Analyst Joe Clabby wrote an insightful article last year criticizing Gartner for its frequent advice to many customers to move their applications and databases off mainframes and onto other, more "modern platforms." He posed a few simple questions to Gartner, including this one in particular: what platform is more modern than the IBM mainframe?
As far as I know, Gartner never responded directly to Clabby's article. But I'm quite sure that at least some of Gartner's analysts recommended migrating mainframe applications and databases to HP Itanium servers running Oracle middleware on HP-UX. (You can see my previous analysis of the HP Itanium meltdown here and here.)
So now I've got this new question: shouldn't those same Gartner analysts apologize for giving such profoundly bad advice to their customers?
My congratulations to Joe Clabby for vastly outperforming Gartner in IT analysis and forecasting. Clabby simply got it right, and Gartner got it oh-so-wrong. More precisely, many (but not all) of Gartner's analysts blew it.
UPDATE: This video speaks to the Gartner analysts who blew it:
| by Timothy Sipples | April 11, 2011 in Current Affairs, Systems Technology Permalink |
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