Re: Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive

2009-06-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
Howard Brazee wrote: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/26/0652216/Microsoft-Backed-Firm-Sa ys-IBM-Is-Anticompetitive Wonder what they'd do if they had some competition on their own size platform. File suit??? Strikes me as another example of (whine, whine, piss and moan) because you're

Re: Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive

2009-06-26 Thread McKown, John
I read more of the article. Another part of the anti-competitive stance is that only IBM does, or can, produce a 64-bit z series machine for customer use (FlexES 64-bit was only for developers?). One of the plaintiff was/is T3, who was with HP in the area of running IBM z/OS, and other z softwar

Re: Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive

2009-06-26 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
mess kits. -Original Message- From: McKown, John Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 6:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive

2009-06-26 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:36 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive > > http://tech.sla

Microsoft claims mainframes anti-competitive

2009-06-26 Thread Howard Brazee
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