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EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun

Posted by kdawson on from the bringing-about-the-most-feared-outcome dept.

eldavojohn writes "The EC has presented Oracle and Sun with a statement of objections. Despite the promotion of former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, the statement seems to focus entirely on what many have feared: MySQL vs. Oracle databases. From Sun's 8-K SEC filing: 'The Statement of Objections sets out the Commission's preliminary assessment regarding, and is limited to, the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database products and its potential negative effects on competition in the market for database products.' The EU and the EC are getting a rep for disagreeing with US counterparts." On Monday afternoon the DoJ reiterated its support for the deal. Matthew Aslett has a helpful timeline of the action from the EC.

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  1. Okay... by countertrolling · · Score: 1, Troll

    The EC is.. who now?

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    For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
  2. Mod parent up by CaseCrash · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod parent up, I'm tired of the /. eds assuming i know what every god damned acronym means. (Sure I can google it, but usually I just move on)

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    1. Re:Mod parent up by solevita · · Score: -1, Troll

      I'm sure the OP would still have asked what the title was about if it read "European Commission Formally Objects..."

      God bless the colonies...

  3. Re:I Object! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, at least that explains why there are hundreds of penises stuck into it.

  4. Re:Oracle's reasons *are* monopolistic! by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    They can't. This is just more typical EU bullshit.

  5. Re:F the EC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're right. A better fuck-you-cocksuckers to the EU would be to pull out all operations (read: jobs) from the EU for American companies hurt by this bullshit. Sell the product there, maybe have the necessary sales offices and whatnot but it's ridiculously too expensive to do business in the EU anyway with this socialist bullshit.

    Personally I'll be glad when the EU collapses under its own weight. Couldn't happen to a bigger bunch of douches. The funny thing is they riot at the drop of a hat, so the first time some member country can't cover the "dole" people will be burning down the cities.

  6. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope Ms. Kroes gets shafted in her lil' ass for blocking the deal!

  7. There at EU are morons by hotfireball · · Score: 0, Troll

    These fucking morons only doing shit to people. Frenchies pushing brain-dead laws, lobbied by M$ and now they are fucking with Oracle. Stupid dickheads, they know zero about Drizzle (MySQL fork), PostgreSQL and other open source players.

    So MySQL is not really a deal. Real deal is that Microsoft and IBM does not likes Oracle purchase and here I suspect black money to block acquiring Sun.