EC Hands Down Formal Objection to Oracle-Sun Deal

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UPDATED: The EC, antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, informed both Oracle and Sun about the decision because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database. The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world’s largest commercial database company owning its largest open source competitor.
– It wasn’t much of a surprise to people following the progress of the Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems that a formal objection to the $7.4 billion deal was handed down Nov. 9 from the European Commission.

The EC, the antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, informed both Oracle and S…

EC Hands Down Formal Objection to Oracle-Sun Deal

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