Beijing December 10, according to media reports, Google has already acquired Sun Microsystems, Oracle transaction to the European Union antitrust regulators to submit their own views. According to plan, with regard to the acquisition of a key hearing will be held Thursday in Brussels.
European Union antitrust regulators to seek the views of Google’s practice of specifying its scope of investigation of the acquisition is very wide.
Google spokesman did not disclose the company’s European Union regulators said what, but he said in a statement: “We are Oracle’s acquisition of Sun’s deal to take a neutral attitude, neither to encourage and support, and no complaints and accusations.”
Due to fears the deal could stifle Sun’s open-source MySQL database software development, the European Commission temporarily stopped the Oracle acquisition of Sun’s transactions and thus began an investigation.
According to Oracle said its database technology is usually applied to large businesses, information is saved, but MySQL is often used to support site and a variety of network services.
Google on the large-scale use of MySQL, such as it used to run its YouTube video-sharing service.
European Union antitrust regulators Thursday will be held in Brussels for a period of two days of closed hearings, Google did not intend to attend the hearing.
However, Microsoft plans to attend the hearing and at the meeting of its views on the deal.
Microsoft and Oracle in the database software market, the relationship between the competitors, which compete with the long-standing relationship between Oracle. For example, Oracle is the EU member of the Committee for Interoperable Systems, the Commission has succeeded in getting the European Union regulators to improve market dominance of Microsoft’s attention.
According to informed sources, Microsoft will be made at the hearing, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun may hinder the development of MySQL, because Oracle is no reason to cultivate a technological competition with their technology.
Oracle’s German rival SAP will also be released at the hearing of its concerns about the deal.
SAP spokesman declined to comment but said in a statement: “SAP has always been clear that its concern is to ensure that the database market highly concentrated users have the right to choose.”
IBM is also the Oracle in the database software market, one of the major competitors. IBM, an executive recently told “Financial Times”, said Oracle’s acquisition of Sun’s deal should not lead to significant antitrust issues. IBM spokesman declined comment.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has publicly complained that the European Commission to stop the acquisition of trade fairs to make Sun loses about 100 million U.S. dollars per month.
Oracle is expected to be in Brussels before the hearing, according to a statement submitted some evidence that its technology and MySQL are different technologies, and even if it wants to suppress the development of MySQL, it can not do that.
Oracle released a statement in November said: “As MySQL is open source software, so that technical knowledge about it are open, and can not be controlled by anyone. That is the characteristics of open source.”
Unlike proprietary software, external developers can freely modify the open-source technology, and then their innovation and the wider community to share.
Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment on.
The European Commission in November issued a Sun Oracle’s acquisition of transaction statement of objections. Within the European Competition Commissioner Like Luo Wednesday publicly stated that she was optimistic, she said: “We must be able to achieve a satisfactory outcome to ensure that no effective competition in the European market have a negative impact.”
U.S. antitrust regulators have approved the August acquisition of Sun Oracle transactions.
The United States, sent a letter to 59 senators have signed up for the European Commission, require it to speed up in this incident, on the decision-making.
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