Archive for the ‘IBM’ Category
EC Opens Two Antitrust Investigations of IBM
by Maureen O’Gara Monday, July 26, 2010 – The European Commission said this morning that has opened not one but two formal investigations of IBM and its mainframe business on the suspicion that Big Blue has abused its dominant position. IBM is already under investigation by the Justice Department for the same thing and the [...]
IBM Reinvents the Mainframe
by Maureen O’Gara IBM has the Justice Department crawling over its mainframe business, complaints of monopoly maintenance going to the European Commission and users chaffing under its punitive licensing fees. So IBM has reinvented the mainframe, apparently reducing the behemoth to a blade. Sources say it’s ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core [...]
IBM Demands Cloud Cover; Sues To Stop Exec from Working for Oracle
IBM filed a breach-of-contract/misappropriation of trade secrets suit in New York Supreme Court last week seeking to hold Joanne Olsen to her non-compete and stop her from going to Oracle for a year. It’s gotten a temporary restraining order according to InformationWeek. Olsen, with IBM for 31 years, was a general manager in IBM’s services [...]
IBM Reneges on its Open Source Patent Pledge
by Maureen O’Gara There’s simply no nice way of putting this. IBM is an Indian giver. To prevent the commercialization of the long-standing open source project Hercules – which might put some of its mainframe revenues at risk since Hercules is a mainframe emulator – IBM has suddenly claimed – out of the blue – [...]
Open Source Start-Up Complains about IBM to Antitrust Regulators
TurboHercules SAS, the Paris-based concern started last year to commercialize the 10-year-old open source Hercules mainframe project, filed a formal antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission Tuesday. The little company says IBM is blocking it from selling its open source solutions. Its software, which reinterprets or emulates the mainframe hardware architecture, makes it [...]
IBM Adopts Unconventional Strategy in Neon Antitrust Case
by Maureen O’Gara IBM replied Monday to the antitrust charges hurled at it last month by Neon Enterprise Software and what’s interesting is not what’s there – which contributes nothing to the discussion outside of adding “parasite” to the list of dirty names it calls Neon – so much as what’s not there. Typically in [...]
IBM Claims To Take the PC Out of PC Servers
IBM wants to be HP. Well, it wants first in x86 server revenue, a slot HP currently occupies. IBM is third. So Blue has taken a whack at “rewriting the economics of industry standard computing” by redesigning the PC server to take the PC out of it and put the enterprise in it. It’s been [...]
Neon Sues IBM for Antitrust
by Maureen O’Gara No sense pussyfooting around anymore trying to sidestep the legal equivalent of nuclear war. Texas ISV Neon Enterprise Software, accepting that it’s in a fight to the death with IBM over mainframes, ripped the kid gloves off late Wednesday, amended its pre-Christmas suit against its giant nemesis for tortious interference, business disparagement [...]
Two New High-End Warrior Chips Born To Battle
Intel and IBM both wheeled out their latest high-end chips Monday. Cute how they do that isn’t it. In Intel’s case it’s the two-billion-transistor Itanium 9300, a k a Tukwila, the device once known as Tanglewood, only about, oh, say, three years late – the thing has been redefined, renamed, tweaked and diddled so many [...]
IBM-Neon Fight Flares
IBM Countersues, Neon Thumbs its Nose, Dares IBM To Prove its Claims IBM has countersued Neon Enterprise Software, the uppity little Texas outfit that had the temerity to try to use IBM’s special mainframe processors to break Big Blue’s stranglehold on the mainframe market. Out to tarnish the ISV so users get scared and slink [...]