Whit Andrews

I have often said that I think with a keyboard, which is a bad way to think sometimes. Especially if you’re working with a spreadsheet instead of a document.So I’m going to scribble notes here for a moment. I’m putting together a proposed RFP for enterprise search/information access technologies right now. It’s been something people [...]

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Lord have mercy, Rita and I are finally done the 2008 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant (Gartner subscription required). Every year I swear the next year won’t run as tight against the deadline, and considering that we had a full four hours to spare this year, I can proudly say I finally accomplished that goal. [...]

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The Information Access technology Magic Quadrant went for vendor review yesterday. That means we should get it out by the end of the month, which is what we have promised we’ll do in the gartner.com Magic Quadrant schedule. Vendor review means that the vendors mentioned in the research note see elements of the RU draft, [...]

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I’ve been working with Rita Knox on the last bitter moments of the 2008 Information Access Technology Magic Quadrant. Every year I swear I won’t be up against a deadline — I’ll just finish it when it’s convenient, you know? Before the back to school thing, before the Symposium thing swings into full-on mode, before [...]

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