Gartner as a consulting business?

Joe's got that interesting thought that, instead of selling the ranch, the Borg will reinvent themselves:

"My guess is that Gartner is planning to re-birth itself as a Consulting business"

Read the post, it's interesting (although we are not sure on the analyst compensation model).

Just one little thing bugs us though: if this is true, why then Gartner sacked almost all the META Group consultants?