| By Maureen O'Gara |
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| August 13, 2009 10:00 AM EDT |
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Oracle sent its Sun acquisition papers to the European Commission seeking approval of the merger and the EC has until September 3 to decide to allow it or make Oracle's life miserable.
The regulator is already asking third parties a lot of questions about MySQL and whether, for instance, InnoDB, the MySQL storage engine that Oracle bought in 2005, has prospered since the acquisition.
American authorities wanted information about Java licensing, a second request for information that Oracle swears won't stop it from closing on the deal by August 31.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Yahoo filed their papers with U.S. authorities and maybe the EC this week. Google is expected to roil those waters.
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
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