Experts Question Microsoft Action, Jan 14, 2002

Microsoft may have hurt its antitrust case by failing to reveal to a federal judge that it lobbied lawmakers, legal experts said.

In court filings, the software giant disclosed only contacts with executive branch officials and not Congress. Records of such contacts are required by the 1974 Tunney Act, written to make sure a company settling antitrust charges doesn't get improper favors from government employees.

The Korean government is to buy 120,000 copies of Hancom Linux Deluxe this year, enough to switch 23 per cent of its installed base Microsoft user to open source equivalents. By standardising on Linux and HancomOffice, the Korean government expects to make savings of 80 per cent, compared with buying Microsoft products.

This should be regarded as a big setback for Microsoft in Korea, for many years one of the few countries in which it was not the dominant player in all of the desktops app business.

Is Microsoft worried? Apparently not, but it doesn’t think too much of the name. Many predicted last Autumn that the name might just get the legal eyes at Microsoft twitching and, sure enough, Lindows.com is now being sued for trademark infringement. Two products in the same line of business with very similar names – Lindows might just lose out on that one. Let’s hope its not all it loses out on.

IBM is looking to highlight its e-business infrastructure products and services with a new campaign featuring National Basketball Associations legends.

The first spot, "The Game," began airing this week and introduces the players and the premise, while five additional spots will refine and deepen the metaphor. "Unsung Hero" focuses on Middleware (McDaniel) as a well-integrated team's critical component; "Linux" concentrates on Schrempf 's character as the driving force of seamless interoperability; "The Other Side" explores team Crash; "The Big Idea" concentrates on Gervin and legacy systems; and "Endless Season" highlights continuous uptime -- that is, that there's no off-season for team Infrastructure.

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