As previously covered, email archiving vendor ZL Technologies of San Jose, California sued leading IT market researcher Gartner for $132M earlier this year for its treatment in one of Gartner’s vaunted magic quadrants. On November 4th, the case was dismissed, but have no worries. Armed with a seemingly endless legal budget and apparent certainty in [...]
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ZL vs. Gartner: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Gartner · Magic Quadrant · Marketing · ZL Technologies
Judge Does Not Decide on Dimissing ZL Technologies Complaint Against Gartner
October 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
(Revised: confirmed that the source, MS&L, is ZL’s PR firm.) While I don’t have official verification of this, I did learn the following this afternoon, regarding the lawsuit filed against Gartner by ZL Technologies over its treatment in their magic quadrants about which I posted earlier this week and which is also covered here, here, [...]
Tags: Gartner · ZL Technologies
Gartner Sued Over Magic Quadrant for Alleged Damages of $132M plus Punitives of $1.3B
October 20th, 2009 · 28 Comments
I found this story today, entitled Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Goes to Court, about ZL Technologies who, citing damages of $132M, has decided to sue Gartner over its Magic Quadrants. From ZL’s web page on the suit: ZL Technologies, a San Jose-based IT company specializing in … enterprise software solutions for e-mail and file archiving, is [...]
Tags: Gartner · Magic Quadrant · ZL Technologies
James Surowiecki and Whit Andrews to Keynote the Mark Logic User Conference
February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m pleased to announce that James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, and Gartner Research Vice President Whit Andrews will be keynoting the Mark Logic User Conference in San Francisco on May 12-14, 2009. The Wisdom of Crowds was a seminal book in the movement to Web 2.0, articulating the rationale for one core [...]
Tags: Gartner · User Conference
Mark Logic at Cutting Edge of New Trillion Dollar Market According to Head of Gartner Research?
December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
What do I think about this post’s headline? Sensationalist? Yes. Technically accurate? I think so. One I’d recommend writing? No. Basically misleading? Yes. Logically correct? I suppose so. In fact, my headline is an almost verbatim copy of an Autonomy press release put out yesterday: Autonomy at the Cutting Edge of New Multi-Trillion Dollar Sector [...]
