Exclusionary abuses – Commitments: The European Commission makes commitments binding, allowing competitors to access mainframes maintenance markets on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (IBM Maintenance services)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Eur. Comm., dec. C(2011) 9245 final, 13 December 2011, IBM - Maintenance services, case COMP/39692 On 26 July 2010, the Commission opened two proceedings under Article 102 of the Treaty against IBM (IP/10/2006). The first concerned a possible abuse of foreclosure to the detriment of developers of T3 emulation software and Turbo Hercules VLC through a pairing between central servers and IBM's server operating system (dominant in this sector). This could in this case be a strategy of leveraging the extension of a dominant position by tying a monopoly segment and a competitive segment. The same logic of potentially anti-competitive leverage was present in the