When regulators obstruct deals causing one of the competitors to be irrevocably crippled that also impacts the competitive situation.
From a competition standpoint we essentially have 2 options: 1. Marketplace minus Sun in any effective form 2. Marketplace with Sun+Oracle merged One might argue that there are other options, but I think by the time the EU gets done messing around those will not be real possibilities -- and that Sun will have been crippled to the point that any other purchaser of Sun would be a fire-sale purchaser and not salvage Sun in an effective form. Of these 2 options, I believe #2 is greatly preferable to #1 from a market health and competitive landscape standpoint. Simply knocking off one of the competitors is quite anti-competitive in its own right -- and that's just what the EU is /effectively/ doing here. -- Jess Holle Casper Bang wrote: >> For instance, some newspaper >> could illustrate us why concerns are only in EU and not in US, I'd be >> pretty curious. And nobody can't even blame G.W. Bush for that. >> > Things work very differently between the EU and the US. As an example, > in the US you are allowed to bash and humiliate a competitor. A > typical political add contain no real objective information, but > revolves solely around personal attacks on opponents, their past and > various irrelevant affiliations. The same goes for products. > It may be there's a pissing contest going on as Reinier puts it, but > technically it really isn't a regulatory's job to lookout for the > financial health of an involved company. Bottom line: When large > companies swallow each-other, it impacts the competitive situation. > This is what the commission is responsible for investigating - this is > where I believe there are profound differences between the US and EU. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
