On Oracle's Two Deals, A Year Apart

Wed, 04/21/2010 - 01:43 EDT - Seeking Alpha

The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon DalyExactly a year ago yesterday, Oracle (ORCL) announced its unexpected $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems. If it doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, and that’s because it really wasn’t. Final approval for the deal dragged on for nine full months, largely because of scrutiny by the European Commission of Oracle owning Sun’s open source database, MySQL. Eventually, Brussels agreed with our initial assessment that MySQL and Oracle rarely competed (MySQL was focused mostly on the low end of the market and on Web applications), so they cleared the transaction.Complete Story »

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