Chris Petrilli may actually think less of IT industry analysts than I do. I wouldn't have thought such a thing was possible :)

"If you’re evaluating tools, and you don’t bother to install and test them, then you’re in paper comparisons and someone will always look better. Feature wars are pointless exercises. You can lead an analyst to water, but you can’t make him any less of a myopic moron. "

"Solve real-world problems in simple to use ways and you will have the best advertising in the world… word-of-mouth. I’ve already told over a dozen other groups about Trac, all of which have adopted it. None of which would have even looked at it were it not for a recommendation. "

I stand by the comment, because I think most “analysts” are little more than overpaid sock puppet shills.