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EU Commission initiates formal investigations against IBM in two cases of suspected abuse of dominant market position

by Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission

(26 July, 2010)

The European Commission has decided to initiate formal antitrust investigations against IBM Corporation in two separate cases of alleged infringements of EU antitrust rules related to the abuse of a dominant market position (Article 102 TFEU). Both cases are related to IBM's conduct on the market for mainframe computers. The first case follows complaints by emulator software vendors T3 and Turbo Hercules, and focuses on IBM's alleged tying of mainframe hardware to its mainframe operating system. The second is an investigation begun on the Commission's own initiative of IBM's alleged discriminatory behaviour towards competing suppliers of mainframe maintenance services.

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BowlerRoger Bowler Responds to IBM Patent Attack on Open Source

by Roger Bowler Creator of Hercules and Co-founder of TurboHercules

(Posted in News & Blogs section of turbohercules.com on 6 April, 2010)

As many of you know, the company I founded to promote the Hercules open source mainframe emulator, TurboHercules SAS, has filed an antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission in Brussels. We are not asking that IBM be subjected to punishing fines or anything like that. We simply want IBM to agree to allow legitimate paying customers of its z/OS mainframe operating system to deploy that software on the hardware platforms of their choice – including, should they so choose, on low-cost servers using Intel or AMD microprocessors and Hercules.

I want to make clear that we undertook this action reluctantly, and only after a long period of reflection during which we reached out to IBM to see if there was some way to resolve our differences amicably. I regret to report that IBM rebuffed our efforts at conciliation, and even added fuel to the fire by launching accusations against Hercules. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to some of those charges.

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The Issues of Competition in Mainframe and Associated Services in India

by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations and Indicus Analytics

Very little is known about the extent and nature of competition in the mainframe and associated services market in India. This is the first study to analyze competition and related issues in the Indian server market, with an extensive focus on mainframe computing.

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Steven FriedmanThe T3 Technologies story

by Steven Friedman, T3 Technologies

For over 15 years, my company was a successful IBM Business Partner. I used to have a thriving company with over 50 employees, nearly 1,000 customers in 28 countries (including 200 customers in 15 European Community states) and a profitable revenue stream earned through selling mainframe solutions to IBM customers. However, now our company is effectively out of business due to the direct actions of the company I used to be closely aligned with: IBM.

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IBM launches private analytics cloud

DateNovember 16, 2009

(SearchDataManagement) By Jeff Kelly

IBM, with more than 400,000 employees, knows as well as any large enterprise that supporting multiple business intelligence (BI) deployments can put a drag on IT resources and create data silos.

So Big Blue has come up with an alternative, today launching what it says is the world's largest internal cloud for BI and advanced analytics. This will make it easier for IT to manage and provision the hardware – servers and storage devices – that supports them and will give workers access to more data, IBM said.

IBM is also offering the internal analytic cloud service to its large enterprise customers under the moniker Smart Analytics Cloud.

The private cloud, which is anchored by IBM's System z10 mainframe and Storage DS8000, will bring together more than 100 of IBM's relational and transactional data sources, which between them house more than a petabyte of data. Sales and support staff can tap into and analyze the wealth of data with Cognos 8 front-end BI tools, according to the company.

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My sources indicate that IBM uses Excel (xls) spreadsheets and email (to exchange the spreadsheets) to run their sales process user interface.

April 20, 2010 | Unregistered Commenteranonymouus
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