[Info-vax] Oracle and HP end Exadata partnership

[P. Sture]

In article <KebNGhHd5t47 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <7hhr0gF2u15qvU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill 
> Gunshannon) writes:
> >  
> > And then think of the economic impact on the EU when all of Oracle's
> > current EU customers have to make an overnight change to another DB.
> 
>    There's no reason that the EU would have to respond by making that
>    requirement.  Existing systems would keep running for a bit without
>    Oracle making a single additional penny.
> 
> > But then, that's why government should keep it's nose out of business
> > beyond when actual illegal activity is taking place.
> 
>    You didn't happen to notice the trouble the US economy got into last
>    year because the government failed to provide adaquate regulation?
> 
>    Mysteriously similar to what happend in the late 1920's leading to
>    regulation in the first place.

The US introduced antitrust laws long before the EU existed :-)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#History_of_anti
-trust>

o - Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
o - Clayton Antitrust Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
o - Robinson-Patman Act of 1936
o - Celler-Kefauver Act of 1959

It wasn't until 1973 that the UK introduced the Monopolies and Mergers 
Commission:

<http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0021873.htm
l>

If memory serves correctly, UK supermarkets weren't even allowed to 
offer discount prices until the late 50s or early 60s (which meant that 
there weren't really many of them). That's within living memory. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture