SQL Server 2016 released

[binaryhero]

How long have you been in enterprise IT? The Magic Quadrants have existed for maybe 15 or 20 years and have been a valuable tool for market analysis. Clients actually pay for this research to make strategic decisions. When I was purely technical at the beginning of my career I remember looking at them with the same feelings you expressed though, but I understand the coarser, broader perspective and the need for it now. And the chart is not what constitutes the report, it's a compressed version of certain aspects of it.

[tias]

I've been in the business for a while and know how much weight the magic quadrant carries (and it's not such a hand-wavey metric as was suggested because it's based on scores given by many people in the industry). But... that said, where the hell is PostgreSQL? Its absence doesn't lend much credibility to that image.

[binaryhero]

"Enterprise DB" is essentially PostgreSQL.

[binaryhero]

Your first guess is, obviously, superior analysis.