I agree with you wholeheartedly... It stinks.. and yet for all the times I warned about the awards being purchased, and the bought and paid for Gartner so called magic quadrant mentions I too was slammed... I truly believe there was an ongoing fraud being perpetrated. The question for the lawyers is.. can management hide behind their safe harbour statements ? The other question is can those so called awards companies be held liable , for perpetrating fraud. And is the mighty Gartner liable too as being complicit in enabling such...