Whatever... [Deepak Alur's Blog]: Deepak Alur's Blog @ Sun

I have been wondering a bit on why IT industry analysts are not yet blogging. Like many in my field, I occasionally look at what the analysts and pundits are saying about different trends in the industry. I remember early days in my career when I paid great attention to many different reports from many analyst reports on any topic from CASE tools to RISC vs. CISC to CAD/CAM to RDBMS to almost anything I could get my hands on. Since these reports were exorbitantly priced, the company I used to work for could only afford to buy a select few and that too when the reports were slightly older and probably obsolete. They were certainly entertaining and sometimes enlightening. Am I glad the internet came around when it did.

Anyway, I wanted to check out how my analyst brethren are doing in the blogging world. And here is what I found. Almost no one really blogs in the analyst world. Or if they do, I could not find them. I did a preliminary search to find any blogs out there from any analysts and here is what I found so far:

• Forrester: This was the only analyst site that prominently featured their bloggers (there are 7 bloggers).
• Gartner, IDC, Yankee Group, Patricia Seybold Group, Burton Group: NO BLOGS!
  With the exception of Richard who has been blogging before joining the Burton Group (no link to his blog from Burton Group site though).

To make some sense of this, I had a brief session with HAL 9000 and he came up with the chart shown here. According to HAL, the more inclined you are to be an Analyst, the less probable it is that you are going to blog because you already have a full-time job publishing your analysis that makes money for your company. But then, I could have given wrong input to HAL (GIGO, remember), in which case if you know of an analyst blog(s), please provide the link(s) in your comment so HAL can compute.

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