July 26, 2010
Hopefully, the decision by the European Commission to initiate formal proceedings against IBM’s suspected abuse of its dominant market position will lead to remedies that will allow companies like TurboHercules to compete in the mainframe market.
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As many of you know, the company I founded to promote the Hercules open source mainframe emulator, TurboHercules SAS, has filed an antitrust complaint against IBM with the European Commission in Brussels. We are not asking that IBM be subjected to punishing fines or anything like that. We simply want IBM to agree to allow legitimate paying customers of its z/OS mainframe operating system to deploy that software on the hardware platforms of their choice – including, should they so choose, on low-cost servers using Intel or AMD microprocessors and Hercules.
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The growth of the Hercules mainframe emulator from a one man project into a production-capable system demonstrates the power of open source software development, which IBM has rightly recognized by embracing Linux as a key part of their future strategy.
As the founder of the Hercules project, I can state with confidence that our emulator is in no way an enemy of IBM.
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When I began writing Hercules in May 1999, it was intended to be a system programmer’s plaything. Little did I expect that, 10 years later, and thanks to the power of open source, Hercules would have grown into a robust, production-capable platform comparable in performance to a low-end modern mainframe.
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