Microsoft Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure

The latest round of research is out from Gartner, and they have positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant of all three Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants. The Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects , Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects, and the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects.

In my humble opinion, placement in the Leaders Quadrant validates Microsoft as a leading provider of platform technology for service orientation and integration. We believe that these reports highlight the depth of our offering in these spaces and recognize our potential for future innovation.

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On the legalese:
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
The Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc., as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Microsoft Corporation.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 27, 2009
  It's been a long time coming, but this is great to see, from Steven Martin's blog . I began the SOA journey

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2009
  I was reading Steve Martin’s latest blog post about Microsoft being named in the leaders quadrant of

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2009
  IMHO It is way too early to standardize the cloud. We need a period of free and open innovation before we decide what makes sense to standardize on. Otherwise we will repeat the lessons of history where "standards" were developed and then largely ignored.  I could point to instances such as the X.500 directory standard which proved too heavyweight so that most implementations adopted the Lightweight Directory Standard (LDAP).  Other examples are things like the ISO model that was destined to replace TCP/IP, IBM's System Network Architecture, etc. On the plus side the SQL standard (which evolved over a period of open innovation) was a good thing even if it did not lead completely to data base interoperability. The industry as a whole needs this period of free and open innovation. Bill Zack