[Info-vax] Oracle and HP end Exadata partnership

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <P7Wdna3FsvlLIS_XnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard 
>> B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>> Suppose *I* bought Sun Microsystems.  Do you think that the EU would 
>>> have any say in the matter?  If so, on what basis?
>>
>>    Suppose the EU said "You can't make sales here."  Now that might cut
>>    into your bottom line after buying a company that does significant
>>    business there.
> 
> Well, I'm not an expert on foreign trade BUT, ISTR reading of various 
> trade treaties with the EU.
> 
> I'll just wait to see what actually happens.

I don't think much will happen.

Oracle will have a pretty good case.

What would you prefer to argue:
A) that MS does not have a position in the desktop OS
    market where they can unfairly squeeze competitors
B) that Intel does not have a position in the CPU market
    where they can unfairly squeeze competitors
C) that Oracle (with MySQL) does not have a position
    in the database market where they can unfairly
    squeeze competitors
?

I would take C any day.

Oracle can make a good case that IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer,
Sybase, PostgreSQL, FireBird etc. makes the database market
very competitive.

So if they make some symbolic gesture like promising EU
that they will not stop MySQL but sell it off if they decide
that they do not want it, then everybody will be happy.

Arne