EC Throws Monkey Wrench Into Oracle, Sun Deal

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Europe is ratcheting up its opposition to Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The European Commission has issued a formal statement of objections to the deal, based on a perceived threat to competition. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes raised those concerns last month in a meeting with Oracle’s top executives, arguing that Oracle ownership of Sun’s open source MySQL database software would represent unacceptable consolidation in the database space.

EC Throws Monkey Wrench Into Oracle, Sun Deal

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