{"id":141,"date":"2005-02-16T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=141"},"modified":"2005-02-16T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T22:56:12","slug":"meta-gartner-or-mega-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/meta-gartner-or-mega-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Gartner or Mega Target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come on now Mr Lewis &#8211; you should be aiming higher than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burtongroupblogs.com\/jamielewis\/2005\/02\/market_changes_.html\">second opinion slot<\/a>. Meta Gartner or Mega Target? The company has a big bullseye on its ass right now. Customers are asking more and more tough questions. The European VP of a content management vendor recently asked me about a competitor<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can a company have a strong ability to execute if it hasn&#8217;t been profitable for eight quarters?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Burton should be aiming for number one, shouldn&#8217;t it? Are you the Dell of analysis? If so the HP Compaq merger just happened. <\/p>\n<p>I have respect for Burton Group and its architectural focus, combined with its <a href=\"http:\/\/xml.coverpages.org\/ni2002-07-15-a.html\">interoperability bakeoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You are not the first analyst firm to use the second opinion meme though &#8211; my buddies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datamobilitygroup.com\/\">Data Mobility Group<\/a> have been using it for at least two years. The storage industry&#8217;s first choice for a second opinion&#8230; cool slogan guys. Aiming for number 2 is just right for an outfit our size&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come on now Mr Lewis &#8211; you should be aiming higher than the second opinion slot. Meta Gartner or Mega Target? The company has a big bullseye on its ass right now. Customers are asking more and more tough questions. The European VP of a content management vendor recently asked me about a competitor How<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-2h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}