EU Objects to Oracle's Takeover of Sun

Although the deal has already been given the go ahead in the U.S., the antitrust regulators at the European Commission have formally objected to Sun's planned sale to Oracle.

The so-called "statement of objections" that Sun received Monday from the European Commission isn't entirely surprising, since the commission already expressed concerns about possible harm to the database market from an Oracle-Sun tie-up when it launched a formal antitrust probe of the deal in September

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