* Conduct 'smacked of intentional wrongdoing,' judge writes

* IBM says verdict 'unsupported by fact and law,' vows to appeal

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Francesca Maglione

International Business Machines Corp. must pay $1.6 billion to BMC
Software Inc. for swapping in its own software while servicing their
mutual client, a federal judge ruled.

US District Judge Gray Miller in Houston on Monday rejected IBM's
claim that it acquired the mainframe software account of one of BMC's
core customers, AT&T Corp., fair and square. Miller awarded damages
based on his earlier determination that IBM's role in AT&T's decision
to dump BMC "smacked of intentional wrongdoing." His ruling came after
a seven-day non-jury trial in March.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-31/ibm-must-pay-1-6-billion-in-bmc-case-federal-judge-orders

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