Abuse of dominant position: The French Competition Authority rejects the qualification of abuse of dominant position and as a result, rejects the qualification of anticompetitive agreements, thereby establishing a relevant connection between these two qualifications (IT services maintenance)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The origin of this case lies in the filing of a complaint by several companies of the Econocom group, active in the IT maintenance sector, against three well-known computer hardware manufacturers: IBM, HP and Oracle. In this connection, it should be remembered that the maintenance activity may be carried out by the manufacturers themselves or by external service providers (known as third-party maintainers). As this activity