Oracle/Sun Deal Not Out of Hot Water Yet

The U.S. Department of Justice may have approved the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, but the deal still could be delayed by yet another institution. The Brussels-based European Commission still has 48 hours to open an in-depth investigation, reports Reuters, and the DOJ’s European counterparts are looking much more closely at Oracle owning MySQL.

Is a leading enterprise vendor buying out its open source competition a violation of antitrust laws? In its approval the U.S. authorities cited no concern about MySQL, and focused largely on Java licensing issues. Sun’s shareholders voted to go ahead with the multi-billion dollar deal back in July, when it was still under scrutiny from the DOJ.

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