Senators Ask EC To Let Oracle-Sun Deal Go Through

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:14AM from the sun-is-setting-fast dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The European Union has managed to do something that US Presidents often find difficult: to make 59 US Senators from both sides of the aisle agree on something. A group led by John Kerry (D) and Orrin Hatch (R) has sent a letter to the European Union, asking it to wrap up the investigation of the Oracle-Sun merger and let the deal go through. Interestingly, the letter emphasizes the damage the delay and uncertainty are doing to Sun." The article paraphrases a Gartner analyst, who points out that the Senators' letter "comes from a US point of view and doesn't take into account how the EU operates."

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The EU doesn't answer to the US by 1s44c · 2009-11-25 01:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Although the US assumes everybody will do when they say on pain of being the next military target that's not the way it works out in reality.
The EU bureaucrats serve themselves.
"Doesn't take into account how the EU operates" by Anonymous Coward · 2009-11-25 02:12 · Score: -1, Troll

In short, there was no bribe money for the EU commissioners.
Because that's how the EU operates.
And you can be sure SAP knows that.
France and Russia (not EU, but they DO have the oh-so-"sophisticated" European view of corruption....) even sold their UN Security Council votes to Saddam Hussein for oil contracts.