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U.S. Attempts to Block Oracle Bid for PeopleSoft

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ongoing-takeover-sagas dept.

AliasF97 writes "Thought you all might be interested in this story about the U.S. government attempting to block Oracle's bid for PeopleSoft via a civil anti-trust lawsuit. Seems to me that the courts are going to have their work cut out for them on this one. Also, the photo of Ellison is kind of comical. If you were to throw a black cape and a tall hat on him, he could be a circus magician."

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  1. Influences into the decision - relations to MS by spectabilis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The courts have a public perception problem with the indecisive nature on the MS anti-trust issue; they have deemed MS a monopoly but have no proper reparations in response. There is partial resigning that it is much easier to limit the creation of a monopoly through merger/acquisition blocking. MS was an already established monopoly when antitrust actions were late in being initiated. chris