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On October 23, 2001, the Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Sungard Data Systems blocking the hotsite service from acquiring assets of Comdisco Inc, another hotsite service. This transaction would have put SunGard in the position of controlling two out of the three major suppliers of hotsite services. The services perform recovery of applications that are run on the largest data processing equipment, mainframe computers or high-end platforms run by companies such as IBM. The disaster recovery hotsites