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MLex Comment: Oracle’s Sun bid may warrant assessment of how 'open' is open source software

By Mathieu Robbins and Robert McLeod ( April 23, 2009, 14:32 GMT | Comment) -- Oracle’s 12 billion dollar bid for Sun Microsystems can be expected to attract scrutiny from European Commission regulators for horizontal overlaps on the database market, as well as vertical relationships between the two companies' software and hardware offerings. Whether these issues raise significant antitrust problems may depend to some extent on the assessment of Oracle’s ability to direct the development of open source software and the continuing presence of industry giants such as IBM and Microsoft.Oracle’s 12 billion dollar bid for Sun Microsystems can be expected to attract scrutiny from European Commission regulators for horizontal overlap on the database market, as well as vertical relationships between the two companies' software and hardware offerings....

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