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IBM Tightens Stranglehold Over Mainframe Market

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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RE: No impact on our mainframes. :-)

by jwwf on Fri 4th Jul 2008 03:56 UTC in reply to "No impact on our mainframes. :-)"

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Then again, the Unisys Clearpath stuff that we use isn't "IBM compatible" by any stretch of the imagination.

Besides, it isn't like "consumers" are in the mainframe market. :-)

Wow, do you guys run the Burroughs system (MCP), or the Univac one? What are the apps?

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