IT pros weigh Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit

Filed by ZL Technologies Inc. — a small email and file archiving vendor — the suit claims that Gartner Inc.’s well-known Magic Quadrant vendor rankings favor big companies with large marketing budgets. And some end users who use the Quadrants for research on IT buying decisions agree with that contention.

via searchdatacenter.techtarget.com

I think there is no doubt that large corporations put a lot of weight on Gartner, Burton, Forrestor et. al. opinions but I don’t think ZL Technologies have much of a case. I sympathise with their position though, especially given I’ll be in the same boat shortly!

For the record, I don’t think large corporations pay a great deal of attention to small vendors regardless of wether they are on the Gartner MQ or not. Small vendors need a niche offering that solves a specific problem, otherwise they won’t get a look in even when they are on the analysts radar so to speak.