Oracle will not be able to buy Sun due to the ban of the European Commission
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The European Commission issued a statement opposing the purchase by Oracle Corporation of Sun Microsystems. The protest commission is concerned with obtaining Oracle control over MySQL, since The corporation itself is a leading DBMS developer. In September 2009, the European Commission took 4.5 months to study this transaction for compliance with antitrust laws.
The appearing statement gives a preliminary assessment of the concentration in the hands of one owner of both the open source database MySQL and Oracle corporate solutions. “The transaction may have negative consequences for the competitive situation in the database management systems market,” the document says. The final decision should be made before January 19, 2010, CNews reports.
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In its response, Oracle indicates that the European Union’s opinion reveals a complete lack of understanding by experts of both the database market and the specifics of creating open source software. “It is clear that the MySQL project cannot be controlled by anyone precisely because of its openness,” the corporation believes.
Earlier, the deal was already approved by the US Department of Justice, which also recalled its position after the appearance of protest by the European Commission. "Our antitrust division carefully examined the planned transaction between Oracle and Sun, and concluded that such a merger would not hurt competition in any market segments," the ministry said in a statement.
The legal department built its conclusion on data collection from the DBMS market participants and studying the internal documents of the transaction participants. "We hope that both companies and the European Commission will come to a quick solution to the difficulty that has arisen," the Ministry of Justice said.
Oracle believes that their DBMS and MySQL are not similar products at all. In addition, they play in the market, where six other companies are also present. “European legislation does not contain reasons for refusing to make such a transaction,” the corporation believes. “Such mergers occur regularly and have not been banned for decades either in the United States or in Europe.”
The European Commission issued a statement opposing the purchase by Oracle Corporation of Sun Microsystems. The protest commission is concerned with obtaining Oracle control over MySQL, since The corporation itself is a leading DBMS developer. In September 2009, the European Commission took 4.5 months to study this transaction for compliance with antitrust laws.
The appearing statement gives a preliminary assessment of the concentration in the hands of one owner of both the open source database MySQL and Oracle corporate solutions. “The transaction may have negative consequences for the competitive situation in the database management systems market,” the document says. The final decision should be made before January 19, 2010, CNews reports.
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In its response, Oracle indicates that the European Union’s opinion reveals a complete lack of understanding by experts of both the database market and the specifics of creating open source software. “It is clear that the MySQL project cannot be controlled by anyone precisely because of its openness,” the corporation believes.
Earlier, the deal was already approved by the US Department of Justice, which also recalled its position after the appearance of protest by the European Commission. "Our antitrust division carefully examined the planned transaction between Oracle and Sun, and concluded that such a merger would not hurt competition in any market segments," the ministry said in a statement.
The legal department built its conclusion on data collection from the DBMS market participants and studying the internal documents of the transaction participants. "We hope that both companies and the European Commission will come to a quick solution to the difficulty that has arisen," the Ministry of Justice said.
Oracle believes that their DBMS and MySQL are not similar products at all. In addition, they play in the market, where six other companies are also present. “European legislation does not contain reasons for refusing to make such a transaction,” the corporation believes. “Such mergers occur regularly and have not been banned for decades either in the United States or in Europe.”
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