The European Commission ceases its antitrust investigation into IBM. The it company would, according to competitors have been guilty of abuse of power in the market for mainframes, but IBM cannot avoid a hefty fine.
According to the EC, the concessions of IBM enough to the investigation to end. As IBM has promised to deliver components for its mainframes, to sell to third parties. It will also be information about are mainframes available to other companies that are active on the mainframemarkt under, according to the European Commission on ‘reasonable and non-discriminatory terms”.
Among other things, the company’s T3 and TurboHercules complained already before the competition authorities that IBM’s dominant position is abused, particularly through the components are not or not timely provide. The EC has not examined these claims since July 2010 but has this dossier for three months ago is already closed. If IBM, however, his promises are not promises, then runs the company to the risk that the European Commission is still a penalty of 10 percent of the turnover of IBM is in control.