Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 19:09 UTC, submitted by WillM
"IBM has just announced it is Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), its small but most significant competitor. PSI is/was a small mainframe manufacturer that had sued IBM over the same anticompetitive practices in Europe and New York.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association sees this as a clear attempt by IBM to purchase a company solely to foreclose competition in the mainframe marketplace, protecting IBM's cash cow at the expense of consumers. This acquisition should be a cause of concern for competition authorities throughout the world." Update: more discussion on this story here
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2005-07-17
Hey boss, you forgot to include a link to your story!!! Being as I can't RTFM I'll, of course, comment on it anyway! We won't let that stop us!
I think IBM has great staff, but slow management. They still tend to use their market locks and big bags of money when they can't get their products out and people buying. I'm an iSeries administrator and their keeping up with the market forces on that platform is painfully slow, we JUST got PHP and MySQL "blessed" by the big blue gods like it was some kind of gift, but they just lock it up and know companies will buy their 5 year old crap because they have to. They're just now marketing things the system was capable of 5 years ago.. way to sell a platform guys!
If you can't compete, buy your way out! BushCo is still in office, might as well get these acquisitions thru while they're being rubber-stamped!