The whole situation is exacerbated greatly by your blogger, someone who is a journalist and whose bio shows no experience in Technology. Simply regurigitating Vendor Rates ‘data’ without exploring the accuracy of the data, the method used to compile the data, whether or not a 3rd party was responsible for collecting the data, and what the business motivation is for Vendor Rate. Interestingly, just a tiny bit of research shows that the smaller Vendors are the target market for Vendor Rates software.

Seems like a less than honest journalistic effort. Given the state of the journalism industry, I guess I shouldn’t be too suprised by the use of shoddy research data and authoring of articles just to ‘get it done’, rather than take the time to ask some of the most basic questions about research tools, tactics and techniques used.

My opinion of Tech Target just took a bigger hit than my Firms numbers in this so-called survey.