The Gartner Group is on our short list of organizations not to tick off, a list also populated by our customers, our business partners, and the Mafia. They are very influential in the IT management industry, and as such, it would be stupid if we did. (Er, the Gartner group, not the Mafia.) So, we’re going to keep this short and to the point.
There’s a post gathering a little bit of attention after appearing on the comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup and from Reddit, regarding a post two and a half weeks ago on Network World’s Cisco Subnet, where Larry Chaffin writes about how he was given an e-mail from Gartner asking for him to take down all blog posts containing the name “Gartner.”
This is the link: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44252
Gartner issued a mea-culpa in the comments page of the blog, and apologized for the letter. This is the link to that comment: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44252#comment-214815
TechDirt also has coverage: http://techdirt.com/articles/20090821/0427405958.shtml
(Speaking more generally, reporters in the tech media can generally feel free to use NetQoS’s name, quote our publications, and write anything they’d like, positive, or negative, about our company.)
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