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European Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Merger

rubycodez writes "The anti-trust body of the EU, the European Commission, has approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, believing competition would be preserved. It saw PostgreSQL as a viable independent alternative to MySQL and that market access to Java would not be restricted. Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year."

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  1. Rrrreally by bjourne · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Uncertainty about Sun's future has cost over a billion dollars in lost sales in the past year.

    Uh.. Citation needed, uhu.