Announced in April this year, the deal between Oracle и Sun Microsystems, questioned by experts of the European Commission reports the BBC. The deal was valued at $7.4 billion and both firms and the acquired Sun, suffering losses and forced to reduce staff, and Oracle, which is in limbo, declare their disagreement with the decision of the European Commission and are preparing for a series of appeals.
Oracle also makes claims that no matter what the outcome, there will be no sale of MySQL, a free database management system owned by Sun. The essence of the dissatisfaction of experts is connected with this product, it is argued that its transfer into the hands of Oracle disrupt competition in the database market.
