The Term "Leader"
In many news, I've read a lot about the term "leader". For example: <A Company> is the leader in <a field/software/something>. After you read enough news, you'll realize that every other company is a leader. For me, it is quite confusing, because in my (simple) perception, there should be only one leader.
Apparently, there's this thing called "leader" in "magic quadrant" (from Gartner, a company who compares companies' products in may areas). Every company who falls in that quadrant is a leader. Moreover, the so called "quadrant" is not a finite space, and I think it could contains as many "dots" (i.e companies) as possible.
As for the leader quadrant itself, imagine its rectangular shape, with "higher leader" positioned more to the top-right, and "lesser leader" positioned in bottom-left area. This morning I saw a chart showing Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Sun Microsystem as "the leader". That's basically almost everyone in the industry. And maybe they'll post their own news somewhere, stating that they are the chosen leader.
So, my point is, the term "leader" sometimes used loosely. I think I will be skeptical the next time I read about some people claims that their pencil product is the leader (in writing-with-pencil-and-paper industry), or insurance product, or programming language, or anything.
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