Oracle and Sun Microsystems: Merger interruptus

Regulators may block a big technology tie-up, but their case is not convincingFOR a brief period many hoped that trustbusters in Europe and America would start playing in tune. During the eight years of the Bush administration, the European Commission’s competition police took a notably more activist approach than their American counterparts. With a new man in the White House, regulators in Washington let it be known that they intended to...

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