[ Thanks to Paul
Shread for this link. ]
“The European Union today delayed the merger of Sun and
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) on concern about competition in the database
market. The EU Competition Commission set a Jan. 19 deadline for a
decision.“Oracle owns nearly half of the $19 billion database market,
while Sun’s open source MySQL generates only about $300 million in
sales, according to Reuters and Gartner.”
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