ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, October 3, 1993                   TAG: 9310030092
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

JUSTICE DEPT. REVIEWING COMPLAINT AGAINST IBM

The Justice Department is reviewing complaints from a group of data processing companies that IBM is violating a 37-year-old court order in an antitrust suit, a department spokeswoman said Saturday.

Representatives of the three companies met for an hour Sept. 14 with antitrust chief Anne Bingaman to present their complaint against the computer giant, said Justice spokeswoman Julie Anbender.

The complaint stems from a 1956 decree in which the courts ruled that International Business Machines was establishing a monopoly in the information automation market. The court told IBM to spin off its data processing work to an independent subsidiary that would get no assistance from the parent company.

Although IBM complied, in 1991 it formed International Systems Solutions Corp. based in White Plains, N.Y., and moved its data processing business there. - Associated Press 


 by CNB