Judge rejects lawsuit challenging Gartner's MQ

摘要

In a ruling that should surprise no one, California Ninth Circuit Court Judge Jeremy Fogel recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by ZL Technologies that accused Gartner of committing illegalities via its placement of ZL's e-mail archiving software in the "niche" box of its Magic Quadrant.rnThis case boiled down to a question of whether the Magic Quadrant is an objective presentation of quantifiable facts, or - as Gartner argued and should be obvious - simply Gartner's opinion based on research.