Wednesday May 7 10:09 PM EDT
Company Press Release
Source: Metastorm, Inc.
Metastorm Files $100 Million Suit Against Gartner Group
OREM, Utah, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Metastorm, Inc. announced it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington DC against the Gartner Group. The suit alleges defamation and libel in reference to an article titled, ``Novell Quits the E-forms market: Bad News for InForms users'', which was published by Gartner on 2/26/97.
Metastorm's suit claims that Gartner published this article without taking reasonable steps to research the truthfulness of statements contained in the article. The article contained numerous statements that were false, disparaging, and defamatory, which were injurious and denigrating to Metastorm and InForms. Furthermore, Gartner published this article about Metastorm for the unlawful purpose of causing economic harm and without justifiable cause or right. This suit has been filed as a result of the reckless disregard for the truth, and manner in which this article was published.
As soon as Metastorm learned of this article it contacted Gartner and pointed out the false statements in the article and requested an immediate retraction. Neither contact listed in the original press-release announcing the Metastorm/Novell relationship or anyone else from Novell or Metastorm were contacted prior to publishing the article. Despite numerous requests and exchange of documents Gartner failed to comply with Metastorm's request.
InForms(TM) is a versatile software development product that automates any business process that involves data entry, forms, approvals, routing, database interaction, and the processing of information. It helps customers optimize and re-engineer business processes that improve individual productivity, work- group efficiency, and organizational effectiveness. InForms offers an open architecture that supports multiple database and e-mail standards. InForms provides the Industry's best integration with GroupWise, GroupWise Workflow, Novell Directory Services (NDS), and IntranetWare.
The newest release, InForms 4.2 will be available in June and will include improved Integration with GroupWise, database performance enhancements, security integrated with NDS, a new installation process, as well as other improvements. These enhancements are designed to improve InForms as an application development tool for creating enterprise-wide solutions.
Metastorm's strategic mission is to develop and distribute high quality applications and services that help customers optimize and re-engineer business processes that improve their ability to gather, consume and process information within a workgroup or throughout an organization. Metastorm is headquartered in Orem, Utah on the Novell campus with additional offices in Maryland, Canada and Switzerland. Information about Metastorm and the InForms product and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at metastorm.com or novell.com.
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