'Magic Quadrant' whiner just won't quit

ZL Technologies wastes more court time flogging groundless suit against Gartner

Only a grim sense of duty prompts me to note this latest development in a lawsuit that gives frivolous a bad name.

As threatened, ZL Technologies has filed an amended version of its action alleging that Gartner violated a laundry list of laws simply by relegating ZL's e-mail archiving software to the dreaded "niche" segment of the consultancy's legendary/controversial Magic Quadrant.

As has been clear from the start of this tempest, in order for ZL to prevail, the First Amendment would need to be overturned and free speech relegated to the dustbin of history. That's all.

My first post lambasting the lawsuit is here.

My post on the judge brushing it aside is here.

Anyone who read the judge's soup-to-nuts dismissal of ZL's first crack at this suit will recall that he granted the company another bite at the rotten apple primarily because doing so is an accepted courtesy in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In retrospect, he should have made an exception and nailed this one shut, if for no one's sake but his own.

You may read ZL's latest whining here. Life's too short for me to do it.

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• e-mail archiving
• Gartner
• magic quadrant
• ZL Technologies