-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 3:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fwd: Is There Such a Thing as a Mainframe Monopoly?
---------------------------------<snip>------------------------------- Who else produces mainframes???????? What is the market share of the competition /IBM???????? There is your answer. ---------------------------------<snip>-------------------------------- IBM's competitors essentially handed a monopoly to IBM when they announced decisions NOT to implement a 64-bit architecture. So if it is a monopoly, it's not by IBM's malicious actions. <SNIP> Please tell me what you consider to be malicious actions. Would suing a company and then buying them out to keep from losing the case meet your definition? Would refusing to license your software on machines other than what you produce go toward malicious actions? Would refusing to license your software for running on a competitor's machine, when just a few months earlier you were doing that? Enquiring minds would like to know. Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's employer -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
