In April of this year Oracle announced its intention to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn. Not long afterwards the European Union raised objections to these plans on the basis that MySQL (a tiny open source component of the Sun business) might in some way be in breach of anti-trust legislation. Last week it confirmed this position by issuing a “Statement of Objections”.
The fiddling:
I wonder how much of the EU’s (read: Taxpayer’s) money and time has been spent on this decision? Almost nobody, other than the EU and a few ex MySQL guys, seems to believe there are any reasonable grounds for such an objection, yet meanwhile Sun’s business continues to collapse in the uncertainty…