And it may simply be unfair to judge a company's product on the basis of business difficulties. Really, a driver of the slowdown was a change in sentiment in the equity markets. Robertson Stephens analyst Lowell Singer says it's unfair to judge Jupiter's forecasting on the basis of this preannouncement. They're in the business of measuring usage. They're not in the business of measuring marketing research spending by traditional and dot-com companies.
Singer says Jupiter's research is still credible.
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