{"id":4143,"date":"2010-03-24T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2010-03-24T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:28:11","slug":"ibm-faces-eu-antitrust-complaint-over-tying-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/ibm-faces-eu-antitrust-complaint-over-tying-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM faces EU antitrust complaint over &#8216;tying&#8217; claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/085a371e-36e5-11df-bc0f-00144feabdc0.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4144\" title=\"100324_ibm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100324_ibm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Antitrust problems for IBM mounted yesterday when a fresh complaint about its business practices was filed with Europe&#8217;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&#8217;s mainframe operating systems on anything other than IBM mainframe hardware, an illegal practice known as &#8220;tying&#8221;. 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&#8217;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&#8217;s, called T3 Technologies, followed in January last year. Microsoft, one of IBM&#8217;s big rivals, made investments in both PSI and T3 at various stages. Image: online.wsj.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/085a371e-36e5-11df-bc0f-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company \u2014 EthicalQuote link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=14\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/085a371e-36e5-11df-bc0f-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antitrust problems for IBM mounted yesterday when a fresh complaint about its business practices was filed with Europe&#8217;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&#8217;s mainframe operating systems on anything other than IBM mainframe hardware, an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ibm","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}