[Info-vax] Oracle and HP end Exadata partnership

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> In article <+37kSKnYIaoT at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>>>     koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>> 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.
>>>  
>>> 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.
>>> And we won't even get into the argument about wether or not there is
>>> an adequate replacement for Oracle.
>>>
>>> But then, that's why government should keep it's nose out of business
>>> beyond when actual illegal activity is taking place.
>>
>> That is actually what EU wants to investigate - whether the acquisition
>> violates EU laws.
> 
> EU does NOT have jurisdiction!  The EU can forbid its residents and 
> businesses to do business with the combined companies but that is NOT 
> the same thing as forbidding the acquisition.

If the new combined company decide not to do business within EU, then
EU have no jurisdiction at all.

But Oracle wants to do business within the EU.

The US government (in form of the IRS) has also been seriously
after UBS which is a Swiss company (not for monopoly position
but for assisting in tax evasion).

They are not under US jurisdiction, but they like to earn
nice green dollar bills doing business in the US.

So they play nice.

Arne