Google, IBM, SAP, and The Others: Is the European Commission Targeting Technology Firms?

The European Commission has recently opened an antitrust investigation in connection to Google’s commercial practices. This is just the last of a number of recent investigations in the high-tech sector, which have involved Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Rambus, Apple, and SAP.

After reviewing the scope of the European Commission’s investigation of Google (on the basis of the available public information), this article focuses on the question of whether