Gartner is not alone among analyst firms in ignoring RSS. Mr. Safe wouldn’t find much searching for RSS at Forrester other than how to “boost margins with merchandise optimization.” Nothing at Giga (which owns Forrester) either (you’ll have to search yourself since they chose POST over GET). Call it whatever you want, it’s invisible to these guys at this point. That doesn’t mean that it’s not important (it is!), just that a lot of people have zero visibility on it right now. Maybe that means it’s a good time to make some changes while no one is looking.
I was re-reading this posting on Chad’s weblog and decided to look into this. It turns out that Gartner is not as ignorant as all that. If you search for RDF, you do a little better. Some stuff about how “XML has grown from a little-known standard to become the foundation of the Web computing infrastructure.”
Likewise, Forrester is somewhat clued in. And Giga had this article in their search results: What Is RDF and Should You Care?: Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a graph-based framework for describing metadata, describing the relationships between metadata, and interchanging metadata. … (Relevance: 93%)