IBM’s Ultimate Challenge
Two suits brought in 1968
- CDC responding to the 360/91 (Supercomputer) introduction
- Settled for $100M
- Justice Dept filed third attack on a Watson
- bundling hw&sw to create a lock
- leveraging accumulated product line
- discriminatory pricing
- below-cost sell strategy
- Case dropped in 1982
- Left behind a bureaucratic hulk
- Huge implications for today’s computer industry