IBM in court bid to shut down Software-Defined Mainframe threat to its 'big iron' gravy train

IBM claims that LzLabs’ IBM-compatible mainframe-in-the-cloud infringes its intellectual property rights

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IBM in court bid to shut down Software-Defined Mainframe threat to its ‘big iron’ gravy train
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IBM in court bid to shut down Software-Defined Mainframe threat to its ‘big iron’ gravy train

IBM is in court this week in a bid to shutdown an IBM-compatible cloud service that, it claims, infringes on its own mainframe intellectual property.

IBM argues that Zurich, Switzerland-based LzLabs unlawfully reverse-engineered its proprietary mainframe software in order to develop what it calls the Software-Defined Mainframe (SDM) – a technolo...

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