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==TurboHercules==
In 2009, Roger Bowler founded TurboHercules SAS, based in France, to commercialize the Hercules technology. In July 2009, TurboHercules SAS asked IBM to license [[z/OS]] to its customers for use on systems sold by TurboHercules. IBM declined the company's request.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.turbohercules.com/TH_IBM_Letters/ |title=Exchange of letters between TurboHercules and IBM |publisher=Turbo Hercules |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012024909/http://www.turbohercules.com/TH_IBM_Letters/ |archive-date=12 October 2011}}.</ref> In March 2010, TurboHercules SAS filed [[European Union IBM competition cases|a complaint with European Commission regulators]], alleging that IBM infringed EU antitrust rules through its alleged [[Tying (commerce)|tying]] of mainframe hardware to its mainframe operating system, and the EC opened a preliminary investigation.<ref>{{citation | url = https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_10_1006 | publisher = European Commission | title = Antitrust: Commission initiates formal investigations against IBM in two cases of suspected abuse of dominant market position | date = 26 July 2010}}.</ref> In November 2010, TurboHercules announced that it had received an investment from Microsoft Corporation.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.turbohercules.com/uploads/main/TurboHercules-News-Release.pdf |publisher=TurboHercules |title=News Release |date=23 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310233934/http://www.turbohercules.com/uploads/main/TurboHercules-News-Release.pdf |archive-date=10 March 2012}}.</ref> In September 2011, EC regulators closed their investigation without action.<ref>{{citation | url = https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_11_1044 | publisher = EC | title = Antitrust: Commission market tests IBM's commitments on mainframe maintenance and closes separate case into alleged unlawful tying |date = 20 September 2011}}.</ref>