BUSINESS: ACQUISITIONS MERGERS : LAW: ANTITRUST : COMPUTER INDUSTRY : EUROPEAN UNION: Oracle's Sun Deal: Oracle May Need to Loosen Its Grip
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Oracle's Sun Deal: Oracle May Need to Loosen Its Grip
Oracle's Sun Deal: Oracle May Need to Loosen Its Grip
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By Aaron Ricadela
November 8, 2009, 9:26PM EST
Business Week
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content/nov2009/tc2009118_559520.htm>
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When Oracle announced its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in
April, the software behemoth was acting on a grand vision. The deal was
part of Oracle's aim to become a soup-to-nuts supplier of everything
companies need to run their computer systems, from chips and operating
systems to databases and business programs. The grand plan may need some
revision.
In order to alleviate pressure from European Union regulators worried
about Oracle's (ORCL) growing power, Oracle may be forced to give up some
control of a key aspect of the deal: the open-source MySQL database
software owned by Sun.
The EU on Nov. 9 formally objected to Oracle?s acquisition of Sun. A Sun
regulatory filing said the EU believes Oracle?s ownership of MySQL would
have ?potential negative effects on competition? in the $19 billion-a-year
database market. SUnN (JAVA) makes computer systems and software including
the Java programming language and MySQL database, a kind of electronic
filing system.
"Taking a Tough Stance"
MySQL, available free of charge, runs the Web sites of some of the
Internet's biggest brands. Among them: Twitter, Facebook, Google (GOOG),
and Yahoo (YHOO). "They're taking a tough stance because 10 years down the
road this could be a pretty big competitor to Oracle," says a securities
analyst who asked not to be named because he was expressing personal views
on the deal.
After saying in September that it's looking into aspects of the deal,
Europe's more formal objection to Oracle's acquisition of Sun sets the
stage for negotiations on how to make the deal pass muster. Regulators may
ask Oracle to release a new version of MySQL that it doesn't control to
preserve competition. Sun bought MySQL for $1 billion in 2008.
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