On 12/19/2010 07:25 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
What the heck are you guys smoking? The EU is a governing body, not a
bond villain.
They had a bunch of fairly ill-considered problems with the sun /
oracle deal. Despite enormous US political pressure they did not hurry
up or drop their investigation. When the investigation inevitably
reported this wasn't nearly as a big a deal as they thought it was,
they let the deal go through. It probably cost Oracle a billion at least.
Exactly how you treat this as the EU being incapable of annoying US
companies boggles my mind.
Well, things are a bit different. EU raised some problems and asked
Oracle to address them. Oracle just published some document that doesn't
imply any obligation, some time passed and in the end the EU raised
their concerns without changing things. Yes, they made Oracle lose some
money (which I admitted it's one thing that the EU is very good in
doing), but I supposed we were talking of "influencing US companies" in
a meaningful way.
Then, if you have some personal link to the EU capable to provide some
rumors, you get mention of lot of pressures that were exercised on the
EU (in both ways).
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