DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun

k33l0r writes "The BBC is reporting that the US Justice Department has approved Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems. The acquisition gives Oracle control over (or a leading role in), among other things, Java, MySQL, (Open)Solaris, ZFS, OpenOffice, and the NetBeans IDE. 'The European Commission has still to rule on the deal, a step that will be required before it can close. That body has indicated it will issue an initial opinion on Sept. 3, according to the Wall Street Journal. It may OK the deal at that time or launch a four-month probe of it. ... The Justice Department ruling came earlier than expected, a possible response to Sun's declining revenues and precarious business position in a steep recession, as the required reviews proceeded.' We first discussed the deal back when it was announced in April."

Comments

Re:I less-than-three ZFS

[Anonymous Coward]

ZFS is in FreeBSD.

Why not just dump whatever fork of GNU/Linux one is using and use FreeBSD?

Re:Reason for merger oversight: Java licensing

[randyleepublic]

Here's what I wonder: what the fuck does some "European Commission" have to say about the activities of two American companies?! I mean it's bad enough that businesses have to go hat in hand to the Massa's house to ask permisson to do something, but why the fuck do they have to go over to the neighbor Massa and ask him too? By what twisted logic does a European Commission have jurisdiction over the activities of American companies?