[Info-vax] Oracle and HP end Exadata partnership

[P. Sture]

In article <4ac2b985$0$290$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> 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.

I've been following the UBS thing with interest.  Apparently
offences were committed on US soil (by US citizens) so they do
actually fall under US jurisdiction.

I was surprised by a recent article about how many US employees UBS has.
I can't find that link now, but according to the following one:

"The job cuts represent 2.5 percent of the 7,939 financial advisers UBS 
had in the United States at the end of June"

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR200909
2300973.html>

and on Page 2:

"UBS increased its presence in the United States in 2000 with the $10 
billion acquisition of PaineWebber Group, a brokerage firm with over 
8,500 brokers and $500 billion in client assets."

-- 
Paul Sture