Database Bias?

[Cander]

The way these reports usually seem to work is that a group is paid to analyze a specific area by the company that knows it will come out on top in that area. It isn't bias as much as it is they are reporting their findings on just what they were paid to look at. Say for example you have a product that competes with another. You know for sure the usability of the ui of yours is WAY better than the competitor ut perhaps the competitors overall speed is better. Well then you would pay someone like Gartner to do a study of the usability between the 2 products and the speed comparison would not be mentioned.

[Nightwalker83]

The way these reports usually seem to work is that a group is paid to analyze a specific area by the company that knows it will come out on top in that area. It isn't bias as much as it is they are reporting their findings on just what they were paid to look at.

It is the same case here! You can find a list of the clients under "Clients" on the above linked to website. Yes, Microsoft and Oracle are two or their clients no surprises there.

[ntg]

...and the speed comparison would not be mentioned.

That's one of the reasons I also had a look at these guys.