SOA filling the Gaps

  As a Independent IT Consultant I often used Analysts Groups Services.  I read Research Notes written by Gartner Inc., Forrester, IDC , Meta Group, GIGA Group etc. and I asked them questions behalf of my clients. On 1998 my customer and me, as a CTO, tried to select a proper Enterprise IDE.  The headline describes exactly what i asked Gartner Inc. about one of the products in our list in order to decide whether it is a candidate to be included in our short list.  As usual I included a background description in my Query.  I received a one word written answer: Yes.  I thought that the answer was not good enough.   The Analyst had to take into consideration the question:  Why I asked the question on one software product and I did not ask the same question on any other of the other ten products ?  The reason for asking was information about the horrible financial situation of the company which developed this software product.  Selec...