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International Business Machines Corp. must pay $1.6 billion to BMC Software Inc. for swapping in its own software while servicing their mutual client AT&T Corp., a federal judge ruled. U.S. 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, Dallas-based AT&T, fair and square. Miller …

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