IBM Sues Micro Focus for Copying Its Software
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International Business Machines Corp. sued Micro Focus International Plc, alleging it contracted with IBM to develop software applications for its mainframe systems and then copied its programs to create a competing product.
In the lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in New York, IBM claims the Newbury, UK-based firm copied software for its Customer Information Control System Transaction Server, or CICS TS, which allows companies to run mainframe applications for operations such as travel requests and payroll online and communicate with other systems.