Busted! I’ve always thought IT

Busted! I’ve always thought IT analysts were waaaay overrated, if for no other reason than it’s pretty much impossible to hold them to their predictions. At least stock market analysts can be compared to prices on Wall Street. But who really knows whether some IT analyst was correct when he predicted that a particular market would grow to X billion dollars today from three years ago? This article points out a particularly egregious example – a highly specious estimate of the value of lost productivity due to spam.