In the IT analyst game, there are really only two contenders: Gartner & Forrester. IDC produces a lot of numerical market data for IT vendors but if you are a CIO, it's probably either Gartner or Forrester you use. Both recently bought competitors (Gartner swallowed Meta and Forrester chomped on Giga) and both suffered during the post-dotcom blow-out IT slowdown.
Historically, Gartner had the broader coverage but Forrester portrayed itself as funkier & more webby.
Which makes their relative approaches to web tools interesting.
Which of the two is freely using blogging & podcasting?
Well, Gartner offers regular podcasts & has several blogs.
Both are RSS-enabled & the blogs have a comments functionality (altho on the "Predicts" blog, most of the comments seem to be from Gartner staff).
Forrester on the other hand has no blogs and does not seem to offer RSS updates. However it does offer sound & video from a recent forum event.
And don't even mention IDC...
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