Monday, May 23, 2005
Tech vendors align against Micosoft in EU case | InfoWorld | News | 2005-05-23 | By Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service:
"A group of five large technology vendors, including IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) and Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles), have officially been approved to raise their voices against Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) in an appeal of the European Commission's antitrust case.
The court hearing the appeal announced Friday that the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) was accepted as an intervenor in the case, according to a Microsoft representative.
IBM, Oracle, Nokia (Profile, Products, Articles), RealNetworks, and Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) have applied to participate under the umbrella group to support the Commission's efforts to keep Microsoft from using its dominance in the PC operating systems market to gain an unfair advantage in the related workgroup software and media player markets..."
"A group of five large technology vendors, including IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) and Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles), have officially been approved to raise their voices against Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) in an appeal of the European Commission's antitrust case.
The court hearing the appeal announced Friday that the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) was accepted as an intervenor in the case, according to a Microsoft representative.
IBM, Oracle, Nokia (Profile, Products, Articles), RealNetworks, and Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) have applied to participate under the umbrella group to support the Commission's efforts to keep Microsoft from using its dominance in the PC operating systems market to gain an unfair advantage in the related workgroup software and media player markets..."
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