OSNews
Forgot Password
·
Register
Login to OSNews
Username or Email
Password
Search OSNews
Advanced Search
Submit News
RSS
Home
Originals
Conversations
News Archive
Resources
Topics
FAQs
Contact
Advertise
IBM Tightens Stranglehold Over Mainframe Market
posted 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
Related Articles
IBM Shows off Power7 HPC Monster
IBM Halts Future Cell Development
IBM, Canonical Pitch Ubuntu, Cloud Package at US Firms
Front Page
Page 2
Should Smoking Void Warranties?
posted 2009-11-27
Apple Asks for Permanent Injunction, Psystar Sold 768 Machines
posted 2009-11-26
FreeBSD 8.0 Released
posted 2009-11-26
Repositioning the KDE Brand
posted 2009-11-26
Ubuntu Dumps the GIMP, Really Needs a Paint.NET
posted 2009-11-25
Genode 9.11 Gets Webkit, USB Storage, lwIP, ARM Support
posted 2009-11-25
New Screenshots of Firefox for AmigaOS 4
posted 2009-11-25
Microsoft on Silverlight vs. Standards
posted 2009-11-24
Chrome OS Security Overview
posted 2009-11-24
Opera 10.10 Released, Includes Unite
posted 2009-11-24
IBM Shows off Power7 HPC Monster
posted 2009-11-27
Dell Releases Experimental, Unsupported Chrome OS Image
posted 2009-11-27
Distrowatch: First look at Fedora 12
posted 2009-11-26
Direct2D Acceleration: Firefox Measures up to IE9
posted 2009-11-26
Chrome Extensions Site Now Open for Uploads
posted 2009-11-24
Explore Refactoring Functions in Eclipse JDT
posted 2009-11-24
KOffice 2.1 Released
posted 2009-11-24
GNOME Journal November Issue
posted 2009-11-24
Total security in a PostgreSQL database
posted 2009-11-24
Microsoft Delays Open Source Release Windows 7 Tool
posted 2009-11-24
Recent Original Stories
Review: iPhone 3GS 16GB, White
posted 2009-11-22
Review: Acer Aspire One AO751h
posted 2009-11-22
Interview: CEO of Kiloo, Maker of App Store C64 Emulator
posted 2009-11-19
Recent Comments
Show me the picture
by
fuzzywombat
I call balogna on this one.
by
Tuishimi
Common sense? bah
by
Sobakus
RE[5]: Agreed w/article
by
modmans2ndcoming
RE[9]: Agreed w/article
by
modmans2ndcoming
Headlines
OSNews Staff Blog
OSGalaxy
Gnomefiles
Go!
Kodak digicam HD editing with PiTiVi
by
Eugenia Loli-Queru
Making the Case: Time Turns Elastic
by
Adam S
dsc01422
by
Kroc Camen
dsc01421
by
Kroc Camen
dsc01417
by
Kroc Camen
Random Comments
RE: Which Enterprise? TOS or TNG?
posted 2005-12-04 15:46:55 by
kaiwai
RE: Crossplatform
posted 2005-12-21 14:36:49 by Anonymous
RE: What a bizarre statement
posted 2006-07-11 23:26:05 by
cyclops
My Messages
posted 2007-03-22 19:17:43 by
griffinme
Corporate backing
posted 2007-09-07 09:00:33 by
re_re
Random Stories
Linux Desktop Distro Shootout Part III: Mepis Review
posted 2003-12-08
Interview with Saku of Maturefurk, the Winning Assembly 2001 Demo Team
posted 2001-08-30
Should ICANN Open up?
posted 2006-07-30
Random OS Link
Ubuntu
Unlocked Cell phones
Cell Phones in Canada