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IBM faces EU antitrust complaint over ‘tying’ claims

Antitrust problems for IBM mounted yesterday when a fresh complaint about its business practices was filed with Europe’s top competition regulator. The new complaint comes from TurboHercules, a French company, which is accusing the US group of refusing to allow customers to run IBM’s mainframe operating systems on anything other than IBM mainframe hardware, an illegal practice known as “tying”. This is the latest in a spate of complaints against the US technology company on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, competition officials at the European Commission started to look at IBM’s mainframe activities several years ago, following objections from a small technology company called PSI. PSI was subsequently bought out by IBM but a second complaint from another smaller rival of IBM’s, called T3 Technologies, followed in January last year. Microsoft, one of IBM’s big rivals, made investments in both PSI and T3 at various stages. Image: online.wsj.com. More…

News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company — EthicalQuote link: IBM | Source: Financial Times

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