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CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-the-best-customer-retention-plan dept.

aesoteric writes "Software giant CA has filed suit against an Australian software developer over a program that allegedly enabled companies to migrate off CA database platforms onto IBM DB2. It claimed the software 'reproduced' portions of confidential source and object codes without permission and deprived CA of license fees. CA also disputed claims that its database platform was 'dying.'"

2 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Lock in by gweihir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So now we have lock-in as a respected business practice? What is next? Making it illegal for your users to even look at products of your competitors?

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    Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
  2. Re:Uh... by wandazulu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow...from the Wikipedia article I went to the product's homepage, and most of it is filled up with a big blue box that has a two sentence blurb that invites you to click more to get ... a few more sentences, emphasizing its ODBC and JDBC connections. The rest of the page seems to be general support and contact stuff. Pretty sad product homepage.