IBM Faces DOJ Antitrust Inquiry On Mainframes 190
Several sources are reporting that IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the US Department of Justice due to a supposed refusal to issue mainframe OS licenses to competitors. "Part of CCIA's complaint stems from the tech giant's treatment of former competitor Platform Solutions. IBM had little competition in the mainframe market when Platform Solutions, early this decade, began work on servers that could mimic the behavior of more expensive IBM mainframes, CCIA said. Platform Solutions, based on past mainframe agreements between IBM and the DOJ, requested copies of IBM's OS and technical information under a licensing agreement. IBM declined to grant Platform Solutions a license and prohibited customers from transferring IBM software licenses to Platform Solutions machines, said CCIA, which has members that are potential competitors of IBM."
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
NASA announced plans to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, the president announced that he was not a crook, and thousands of hippies descended upon Woodstock for 3 days of peace & music,
IBM? Mainframe? Anti-trust? ATT? Bell? ... OMFG! (Score:1, Funny)
Last night I went to bed in October 2009 and today it's October 1969 again!??!
And ... sheeee-it! It's 2 months after Woodstock! Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming!!! If there is a God, he's got a cruel, warped sense of humor.
Wait! (Score:3, Funny)