NetScout Systems is taking legal action against Gartner after it was named as a “challenger” and not a “leader” in one of its Magic Quadrant industry reports.
The lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court Tuesday under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, is for “corporate defamation arising out of Gartner’s information technology research business practices.”
According to cmswire, NetScout said it had “suffered significant damages and ascertainable loss as a consequence of Gartner’s deceptive, immoral, unethical, oppressive and unscrupulous acts or practices”, while Gartner said it is not considering this “complaint to be without merit and intend to defend ourselves and the integrity of our research processes vigorously”.
