IBM Says Rivals Behind Anti-IBM Report in India

From PC World: IBM has slammed a report critical of the adoption of its mainframes in India, saying the report was driven by IBM competitors and has no credibility.

The report was sponsored by OpenMainframe.org, an online forum for news and information related to creating an open market for IBM-compatible mainframe technologies.

OpenMainframe.org is "bought and paid for" by Microsoft and other IBM competitors, so it's hardly surprising that it would make an anti-IBM argument, IBM said in a statement over the weekend.

The report released last week by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), an economic policy think tank, and Indicus Analytics, an Indian economics research firm, acknowledges at the outset the contribution of OpenMainframe.org in "instigating and shaping" the report.

Microsoft declined to comment on IBM's charges. A company spokeswoman however said on Monday that Microsoft was just one of a number of members of OpenMainframe.org.

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