Antitrust settlement over Big Blue's big iron nears IBM agrees to supply commitments to other firms
Big Blue has almost settled its differences with the European Commission over the supply of mainframe spare parts to third-party maintainers. The EC launched an antitrust probe into IBM on its own initiative, alleging that Big Blue was keeping potential competitors out of the maintenance services market for its System z servers by restricting or delaying access to parts that only IBM had. IBM has now committed to "the expeditious availability of certain spare parts and technical information to third-party maintainers in the EEA, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions over a period of five years", the commission said. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/commission_asks_for_feedback_on_ibm_commitments/ Plus... Celebrating the 55th anniversary of the hard disk http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/16/ramac_55_year_anniversary/ Mainframe shops (a little) more optimistic about System z http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/bmc_mainframe_survey/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
