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Oracle gets an EU extension
ORACLE HAS GOTTEN the extension to its legal battle with the European Competition Commission that it wanted.
The case was set to finish in late January, but it has now been extended by six days. Oracle wanted the delay because it is still putting together counter-arguments to objections to its purchase of Sun Microsystems, including the suggestion that it might harm competition in the database market. The firm also said that it needed the extra time because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
"Oracle requested the extension in order to have the opportunity to further develop its arguments in response to the Commission's concerns," said the European Commission in a statement.
Following an earlier statement from the EU that the deal may not be the fairest for other server firms, Oracle fired back, saying, "Oracle's acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high end server market, for revitalising Sparc and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform. The transaction does not threaten to reduce competition in the slightest, including in the database market."
While regulators in the US have already approved the deal, which is worth $7.4 billion, Brussels has been more cautious in its deliberations.
Larry Ellison has been pushing to get the deal approved soon because of the money it is costing both firms.
The deadline is now January 27, which gives Larry and the lawyers plenty of time to get over the holidays. µ
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I think CentOS is about to get a little brother - CentDB. It isn't a problem to fork the MySQL code - and community enterprise projects are getting more and more publicity all the time.
Before long, MySQL will be just another name that time forgot.
I think Oracle has lost credibility in this battle. Fighting hard to acquire something while at the same time arguing that the acquisition would not matter to the market, does not make any sense. Oracle is losing hundreds of millions instead of just letting MySOL go. It must be really important to them.