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Political support for the Oracle/Sun merger

Wednesday, November 25. 2009

The merger of Oracle and sun got some prolitical support by a letter signed by members of the U.S. senate as reported by Reuters:

Fifty-nine U.S. senators, led by John Kerry and Orrin Hatch, have urged European antitrust regulators to conclude their investigation of the Oracle and Sun Microsystems merger and justify any further delay in making a decision on the deal.

You will find the full text of the letter on the website of Senator John Kerry. I'm somewhat surprised that the senators put their weight into this situation on such a direct manner, but i think this could really help in this ridiculous situation.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in General at 13:53 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)
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It is a ridiculous situation - the EC has no idea what they should be concerned about. MySQL is a pervasive but small database with probably less than $100 million in revenue (that's a wild guess). Java on the other hand is a huge multi-billion dollar industry and somehow the EU misses this much more interesting aspect. How Oracle moves Java forward is much more pertinent to a huge portion of the industry.

- cheers.
Charles

#1 Charles Ditzel (Homepage) on 2009-11-25 21:45 (Reply)

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