The actions of the company had to yield to an agreement after that.
Google’s counter-offensive troubled
Bloomberg reported that in Google agreed to pay $512 million, which is approximately €470 million to a number of cloud based companies in Europe with the view of preventing an antitrust settlement between Microsoft and the European Union. This financial pact’s ultimate purpose was to ensure that there was a commitment to sustain a formal complaint against Microsoft.
An agreement thwarted
The matter was this complaint lodged by the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), a non-profit, non- commercial organization. The organisation charged Microsoft with using the software maker to lock out business clientele in switching providers since the software was linked to Microsoft Azure Cloud services. This was then followed by a negotiation that happened between CISPE and Microsoft to provide the former a better opportunity to access to the latter’s technologies and thus, the formal complaint ends.
Google’s proposal
What has been said is that, the company has, in fact, given CISPE the aforesaid financial arrangement for the pursuit of the complaint as it has been known from the leaked documents and insiders close to Bloomberg.
This appealing bundle was primarily split into software licenses concerning Google’s cloud solution for five years at $495 million or €455 million. The rest comprised a long-term partnership and cash component. It is also worth pointing out that one of Google’s components came from AWS which is a CISPE member.
The final verdict
However, the sweeteners proposed here are rather enticing: Still, the cloud companies that constitute CISPE, primarily based in Europe, were not persuaded. But they have opted to sign this same type of deal with Microsoft that enables them to avail modified Azure services and sell other Microsoft solutions and services on their unique on-premises private clouds. Microsoft’s method of not dealing with the merit of the complaint but opting to pay those who have the complaint, is rather negative to companies and should not be taken lightly, argued Amit Zavery, the chief platform officer of Google Cloud.
