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Mr. Ellison Asks That His Burgers Be Served With Freedom Fries Until Further Notice

John Paczkowski in News on September 3, 2009 at 9:12 am PT

Approved without incident by Sun shareholders in July and the U.S. Justice Department in August, Oracle’s planned $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems seemed poised to easily pass muster with European regulators as well. Sadly for Oracle, that’s not how things have played out. Citing “serious concerns” about the deal’s effect on competition in the market for databases, the European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into it.