Oracle braced for Brussels objection on Sun deal

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Published Nov 03 2009 by Financial Times - US homepage

Oracle braced for Brussels objection on Sun deal

Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned $7.4bn acquisition of fellow US technology company Sun Microsystems, escalating the company’s high-stakes legal wrangle with Europe’s competition authorities

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