It seems ironic to me that the major hangup here seems to be stopping Oracle from killing MySQL.
If Sun isn't bought at (especially if this deals fall through) the company will eventually go bankrupt and MySQL will essentially be dead in the water anyway. And what other company out there large enough to buy Sun does NOT have a competiting DB product? MySQL would just as much the ugly step brother of DB2 at IBM. As a former Sun employee who still likes the company, I feel bad for the remaining employees. They've been in limbo for so long and it never seems to end. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
