With my new job I have discovered how much people in large organizations rely on other people to do there thinking for them. One prime example is Gartner (the research firm) as they describe themselves on there web site “We are the world's leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry.” I think anyone who spends any time reading there “analysis” could find huge lack of real world experience and little depth of knowledge in many of the topics the cover but hey I am not here to batch them as they did get this one correct  Magic Quadrant for Web Services Platforms, 2005