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Compuware cuts prices to compete.

Publication: Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News
Publication Date: 17-MAR-05
Format: Online - approximately 667 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Jewel Gopwani

Mar. 17--Compuware Corp. has had to slash its prices by as much as 80 percent to fight off IBM Corp., a $96-billion gorilla in the technology industry, Compuware Chief Operating Officer Tommi White told a jury Wednesday in the trial between the two tech companies.

It's a practice, White said, that cannot continue.

Compuware sued IBM in 2002, claiming the Armonk, N.Y.-based company hired its former employees to share trade secrets about Compuware's most popular products. Compuware argues that IBM used that information to develop competing software and undercut Compuware's prices, to ultimately run the Detroit-based...

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