Compuware Brings IBM to Antitrust Court

pcs305 writes " According to a news article at Yahoo, Compuware is accusing IBM of stealing code and copying Compuware manuals. They also accuse IBM of being a monopoly in the mainframe market and of anti-competitive behaviour. "

Comments

Re:This is "anti-competitive"?

[nurightshu]

Agreed.

I work for UPS, and we're currently working with the Teamsters Union on contract negotiations for all of our union employees. FedEx has taken the opportunity to lure some of our current customers away from us, by talking up the possibility of another strike like the one in '97. It's so remote as to be almost an impossibility (that strike caused a huge financial dent in the Teamsters' strike reserves), but it doesn't stop them from using it as a marketing tool.

Should UPS sue FedEx over their sales force's marketing tactics? I don't think so. Most of my fellow employees don't think so either. We'll simply press on and complete the negotiations, while we continue delivering the packages, same as always. If we can't, we sink. Simple as that.

Business is a fairly brutal Darwinian process sometimes, and if Compuware can't handle the fact that IBM's sales weasels are slick fast-talkers, maybe they should find another line of work. I hear that selling watercress sandwiches in front of the airport is pretty lucrative...

Re:IBM _is_ a monopoly

[perky]

Yet again, you haven't appreciated that the hardware cost of an s/390 is only a small proportion of the cost to IBM of delivering an s/390. The marginal cost of adding 5 processors when you have the fab up and running is negligible when compared to the cost of R&D, software development, marketing, support, building and tooling the plant etc. yes, the margin is big, but not that big.