Apple faces a showdown with I.B.M.; two will renegotiate Macintosh system fees
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Apple and IBM are renegotiating the licensing fees IBM pays to Apple for its Macintosh operating system software. Apple seems to regret its 1995 decision to allow other companies to clone the Macintosh computer. Apple is reportedly considering increasing the licensing fees to up to ten times their current rates. The licensing fee increase would also affect Apple's long-term partner IBM, which is causing problems between the two companies. By raising the fees, Apple hopes to retain the most lucrative and profitable segment of the Macintosh market, which is Macintosh software that can run on powerful PowerPC chips. In early 1997, Apple began proposing a sliding fee arrangement that would made clone makers pay a licensing royalty of over $500 per machine for Apple OS software that can run on PowerPC systems. The current licensing fee runs $50. Some Apple officials feel that the success of the clones has cost Apple over $1 million a day in lost sales.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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U.S. investigating Microsoft's role in Intel decisions; part of antitrust case; '95 memo said to show that Gates pressed chip maker to stay out of Internet
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Federal and state investigators are studying whether Microsoft has used its market strength to deter Intel from entering Internet technology markets in which the two allies might compete. The search may become part of the antitrust case against Microsoft filed by the Justice Department and 20 states, which accuses the company of leveraging its OS monopoly into the Internet commerce and software markets. At issue apparently is an Aug 1995 meeting between officials from both companies, including Microsoft Chmn William H. Gates and Intel Chmn Andrew S. Grove. An angry Gates ordered Intel to halt its Internet software development while hinting about supporting Intel rivals, according to one of numerous internal Intel memos that investigators had demanded. Gates mentioned Intel's work in native signal processing (NSP), a layer of multimedia software, as well as its planned Internet support and a software engine for Sun's Java programming language.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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