US Government Keeping Close Eye on Longhorn

skrysakj writes "CNN/Money has a new article describing the close eye the Feds have on Longhorn and its compliance with the anti-trust settlement. I wonder how discerning their eye will be considering past decisions and lax enforcement. Also, this prompts the question, what is the EU doing to examine Longhorn?" The longer Washington Post piece has more information.

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In addition to the Justice Department

[Neil Blender]

They should put the Department of Homeland Security on it too. You know, for securities sake.

Re:In addition to the Justice Department

[Anonymous Coward]

They will both be in the Local Administrators group.

Close Eye...

[ackthpt]

close eye the Feds have on Longhorn and its compliance with the anti-trust settlement.

Probably because it'll come bundled with a complete government, so you won't need the on in Washington DC, state capitol, etc.

Those guys up in Redmond are so thoughtful, but what happens when the first security hole is found?

PU...err...EU

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, this prompts the question, what is the EU doing to examine Longhorn?

Not using it? :-D

Re:Fox on the henhouse

[mblase]

When the fox gaurds the henhouse

I thought it was well known that FOX mainly guarded the White House.

Re:Fox on the henhouse

[Otter]

When the fox gaurds the henhouse, there isn't much need to count the chickens. Whatever happened to anti-trust with balls? A paper tiger is meaningless...

Sorry, my metaphor stack overflowed at that point.

Re:Meh

[Coryoth]

When faced with these sorts of forced splits, it is always useful to consider Fisher's Deduction:

"The more issues a person tries crudely shoehorn down into an artificial liberal/conservative dichotomy, the more certain you can be that ther person is an American."

It's not 100%, but it is surprisingly accurate surprisingly often.

Jedidiah.