Brussels, 11/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 11 November, the European Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of French software vendor ILOG S.A. by the US company International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
The Commission's investigation noted that the proposed transaction would give rise to some horizontal overlaps in the wide software category of “application development and deployment” and in supply chain management applications. It confirmed, however, that these...