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  • The $5 Trillion lock in

    Someone’s just mentioned to me that IBM is claiming there are $5 Trillion worth of applications on the mainframe: Many enterprises, such as yours, may have millions of dollars worth of mainframe assets and core business applications that support the heart of the business. In fact, its estimated that...
    Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 05-13-2009
  • FT: Brussels to proceed with IBM antitrust review

    The FT reports :- European regulators are to push ahead with an antitrust inquiry into IBM’s dominance of the computer mainframe market, in spite of the computer maker’s acquisition this week of the small rival whose complaint had stirred up the review. attributing the news to " sources in Brussels ...
    Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 07-04-2008
  • IBM buys Platform Solutions, secures mainframe monopoly.

    IBM has just announced that it has bough privately held Platform Solutions Inc . As part of this acquisition, both IBM and PSI dropped their respective claims against each other. Wow. PSI claimed that IBM has committed extensive anticompetitive practices, including the following: Tying its mainframe...
    Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 07-02-2008
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