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Re: [LUG] OT: Fwd: IBM faces two competition probes

 

On 26/07/10 15:51, Julian Hall wrote:


'The European Commission has launched two competition inquiries to study whether IBM has abused its dominant position in mainframe computers. One probe follows complaints by two software makers, T3 and Turbo Hercules'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10764294


I'm not 100% sure but this does appear to be MS at work.
This seems to be about IBM doing with mainframes what Apple does with it hardware - the OS is dirt cheap cos the hardware pays for it.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100408153953613
Tom te tom te tom

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