Florian Also there is next information about ORACLE and SUN Microsystems (see, text below)
Today European Union antitrust authorities formally approved a deal that ORACLE buys the company Sun Microsystems. "Now we are fully satisfied that competition and innovation will be maintained on all existing markets. Sun acquisition is an important capability for Oracle and will promote further development of new products," - said the European Commissioner for Competition Ms. N. Kroes. There are no additional conditions on the deal that European antitrust authorities not come forward. Recall that its investigation of the transaction was conducted by EU commission from September 2009. Yours truly Viktor > Florian > > Hello > > What do you think about following news? Concretely: What about > perspectives if OOo in the nearest future under ORACLE supervision? > > Yours truly > Viktor > > NEWS: > > Press office of Oracle Corporation today announced that next week will > present a detailed roadmep to develop products in the portfolio at Sun > Microsystems. On the same day, European antitrust regulators will have to > announce its decision on the transaction. It is expected that Europe will > approve a merger. > > Recall that in March last year, Oracle announced an agreement for the > purchase of Sun Microsystems for 7.4 billion dollars. Since then, > companies faced with the investigation of the transaction in the U.S. and > Europe, but if the U.S. antimonopolschiki quickly gave the green light to > the deal, Europe is concerned the further fate of database MySQL, owned by > Sun. > > Submit a plan for the development of products the company intends to 17:00 > Moscow time on January 27 at its site in the form vebkesta. > > Now Oracle claims that Sun's primarily interested in the Solaris operating > system and environment Java, but critics of the deal in Europe argue that > in fact the company wishes to convert to paid versions of its database > users free database MySQL, whereas in the U.S. say Oracle is actively > talks about policy plans for the Sun and says nothing about the > development of the hardware business Sun, which makes me think about the > sale of the Northern Sun business to one of the competitors, for example > HP or IBM. > > C on the other hand, Oracle has previously, in conjunction with Sun > northern system ExaData II, promising to develop this line further. > Remains unclear and the fate of the processor architecture of Sun Sparc, > which had previously been strongly criticized by Oracle head Larry > Ellison, who called the Sparc is too expensive and unprofitable > technology. > > There are a number of issues and on another product, is closely affiliated > with Sun, we are talking about the open office suite OpenOffice.org. > Analysts say that about the development of the company altogether > forgotten and did not report on its development, although the Sun when he > was an independent company active in supporting OpenOffice both > technically and financially. > > Yesterday, its concern with OpenOffice expressed the Government of > Denmark, banks ABN Amro and ING Bank, as well as the logistics company > DHL, which are among the biggest users of OpenOffice. Here are worried > that Oracle deemed inappropriate allocates financial resources to non-core > for a product that does not vapidity profits. "The fate of OpenOffice in > the event of a merger will depend entirely on Oracle, which is still very > prudently taken its expend", - says Luis SOREZE-Potts, manager of > developer relations OpenOffice.org. > > Today in Oracle refused to give any comments on the plans for development > projects of Sun. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
