{"id":657,"date":"2006-07-11T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=657"},"modified":"2006-07-11T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:25:04","slug":"my-first-gartner-cease-and-desist-the-missing-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/my-first-gartner-cease-and-desist-the-missing-link\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Gartner Cease And Desist: the missing link"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Governor’s MonkChips: On Sample Sizes for Magic Quadrants<\/a><\/p>\n

Its about time, I guess<\/a>. Last Thursday I received an email, strangely enough from Gartner’s Vendor Relations department, asking me to remove a link from monkchips, because it apparently constituted “unauthorised use”. <\/p>\n

So wait a second. I can’t post a URL to a Gartner site? What exactly would be the penalty for doing so? <\/p>\n

Vendor relations? I am not a vendor. <\/p>\n

Shouldn’t it be the responsibility of Gartner, and in this case SAS, to protect their intellectual property? I mean that’s what firewalls and registration mechanisms are for, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

The irony is that I was going to follow up and say what good work Gartner had done, with a new and improved, and most importantly formally documented<\/em>, methodology for the Magic Quadrant.<\/p>\n

I can’t point you to the useful resource however. Well I can- it would be interesting to see Gartner find a way to punish me for publishing a url. But I think I am doing quite enough of Gartner’s marketing here already.<\/p>\n

This isn’t even a Big Co pushes small co around story.. its really too silly for that. I am certainly not looking for any sympathy (although a couple of blog posts wouldn’t go amiss!). I do however suggest SAS and Gartner go and work it out between themselves. As of now the “issue” still remains – the “missing link” is still in the wild. Its really not my problem. Well done Gartner with the new transparency – its just a shame nobody can see it.<\/p>\n

Whatever you do don’t go check out SAS.com<\/a> for this information: who knows what rules you’ll break if you do.<\/p>\n

In case you’re wondering – our library is free. Its not extensive, but it has zero barriers to participation. We want people to read our stuff and make their own contributions. <\/p>\n

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