[email protected] wrote: > I don't actually think that the EU is trying to kill off Sun. > > I think they are a clueless lot though. And I think blocking the > merger will REDUCE competition as Sun and MySQL would both be damaged. > The thing has been discussed also in previous threads, but the links you posted gave a bit more information (IMHO). One of the central points of the debate is why the US anti-trust gave green light and, on the contrary, EU has got objections. It has been argued that they have got different ways to look at market, competitions, etc... and the US antitrust is less concerned in a product being killed. On an abstract basis, this could be even true since clearly US and EU are grounded on different cultures. But this doesn't sound the case, as in one of the posted articles there's the statement that US anti trust concluded that the buy doesn't pose risks to the future of MySQL. So they were concerned, investigated and concluded that there are no issues. Now, one would be curious in knowing in which details of the thing the EU thinks the situation is different. This is not having different care of competition, but getting to different conclusions starting from the same analysis.
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