Die Verschwörungstheorie
oder warum Microsoft angeblich hinter der Klage steht
Our Master's Voice: »Let there be no confusion whatsoever: There is no merit to the claims being made by Microsoft and its satellite proxies. Certain IBM competitors, which have been unable to win in the marketplace through investments in fundamental innovations, now want regulators to create for them a market position that they have not earned.’«
Statement der IBM Corp.
Background Noise: »Microsoft competes with IBM, and IBM accused Microsoft of orchestrating the complaints to promote sales of its Wintel servers.«
Boston Globe
Die Preis-Sicht: »The two investigations into I.B.M.’s practices have the potential to redefine the market for mainframes. .... the decline in mainframe prices has slowed since the makers of I.B.M.-compatible servers exited the market. From 1995 to 2001, I.B.M. reduced the price of computing tasks handled by mainframes by 31 percent a year. Those price declines averaged 13 percent after the makers of compatible mainframes exited the market, said A. M. Sacconaghi Jr., an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York. «
The New York Times
Ohne Eigene Maschine (OEM): »The two companies that complained to the European authorities, T3T Inc. of Tampa, Fla., and TurboHercules SAS of Paris, don't make any of their own equipment. They provide so-called emulator software that allows mainframe applications to run on cheap, off-the-shelf computers. Their chief complaint is that IBM won't allow their customers to buy or license the IBM mainframe operating system, called zOS, to use with their emulators.«
Wall Street JournaL
Auch im NEON-Licht? »There's even the possibility of a third case based on a complaint filed very recently by NEON, and the DoJ is also looking into this matter. «
Slashdot
Kontroll-Instanz: »Doch was immer die Prüfung ergibt, sie kommt zur rechten Zeit: Denn IBM hat eine Art von Monopol auf einen Markt, der plötzlich attraktiver wird. Da schadet Kontrolle nie.«
FAZ
Die Rolle der Mainframes
und die Freiheit der Kunden
Das Datenmonopol: »Mainframes are powerful computers used by large corporations and governments to store and process critical business information. It is estimated the vast majority of corporate data worldwide resides on mainframes.«
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Sales of a Machine: »The European Commission estimated worldwide sales of mainframe computers and operating systems in 2009 at euro 8.5 billion. It put sales in Europe at about euro 3 billion that year.«
ABC News
»Sales of mainframe computers account for less than 10 percent of the worldwide market for data center computers, estimated to be $49 billion this year, according to the International Data Corporation, a research firm in Framingham, Mass.«
The New York Times
Run-Time: »Mainframe customers should be permitted to run the applications and data that they own, and in many cases developed, on the computer hardware of their choice.«
Roger Bowler, Mitgründer von Mitkläger TurboHercules.
Die Hercules-Aufgabe: »In 1999, the Hercules open source project team created the Hercules “emulator.” This technology takes the IBM instructions set, translates and interprets them so that IBM customers’ programmes and applications can be run on non-IBM mainframe platforms, such as a Microsoft server built on Intel processing technology, according to Ted Henneberry, US attorney for TurboHercules SAS, the France-based commercial entity trying to market Hercules, and author of the antitrust claim.«
Intellectual Property Watch
IBMs Warnung: »Your product emulates significant portions of IBM's proprietary instruction set architecture and IBM has many patents that would, therefore, be infringed.«
Mark Anzani, CTO der IBM, am 11. März 2010 an Roger Bowler
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