U.S. Begins Antitrust Inquiry of IBM

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According to The New York Times, the Justice Department has started a preliminary investigation into whether I.B.M. has abused its monopoly position in the mainframe computer market.

This month, antitrust regulators at the Justice Department began seeking information about I.B.M.’s business practices from companies that compete with I.B.M. in the market for large computer hardware and software, people who had been contacted in the inquiry said.
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Goddamn EU are always interfering ..... oh wait..... :D

Nate
 
Everyone has to get a piece of the pie. Though the US has a ways to go to catch up with EU's fine tooth comb anti-trust suits.
 
Holy 40 year flashback Batman!

... IBM's success in the mid-1960s led to inquiries as to IBM antitrust violations by the U.S. Department of Justice, which filed a complaint for the case U.S. v. IBM in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on January 17, 1969. The suit alleged that IBM violated the Section 2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing or attempting to monopolize the general purpose electronic digital computer system market, specifically computers designed primarily for business. ...
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Of course, I didn't really need wiki for that...I was programming in Assembler Language on IBM 360s back then so it was "current events" for me :D
 
IBM is nothing compared what they used to be what do they expect to gain from it?
 
This will go nowhere. IBM just had a suit by T3 dismissed and they actually MAKE mainframes. MS, AMD, etc that make up the players in the CCIA will have a tougher case to make how their mainframe business is being harmed. Strange how they are dragging others with them - RH, for instance, is making a nice chunk of change off their RHEL on System z business.
 
I at first read this as Intel antitrust and it seemed to make sense.
 
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