2008 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software

Gartner released their 2008 Magic Quadrant for Social Software last Friday. Socialtext is the only vendor to be in the Visionary quadrant for the second year in a row. Thirty three vendors were judged to be Niche Players. The remaining five are Atlassian, IBM, Jive, Microsoft and Socialtext.

Since the original report came out a year ago, Socialtext has made tremendous progress.

• We made a smooth CEO transition and Eugene Lee has brought another level of execution to the business
• Socialtext 3.0 has shipped, including Socialtext People, Socialtext Dashboard and Socialtext Workspace
• SocialCalc and Socialtext Signals are currently in Beta
• The customer response to our innovations has been overwhelmingly positive. Even in turbulent times, customers find our solutions to be a strategic imperative.

We’ve come a long way. It should be noted that there is still room for vision and execution according to Gartner’s criteria, and no vendor is in the Leader quadrant. I’m sure the other four top players have set their sights on next year as we have — up and to the right.

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