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Ruling Extended Eight Days at Oracle’s Request

European Union (EU) regulators extended the deadline for their final decision on Oracle’s plans to buy Sun by eight days. Announced on November 20, this extension was set in place to satisfy a request made by Oracle who is building its rebuttal to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections issued on November 9th opposing Sun’s acquisition by Oracle. The Commission said it has pushed back its deadline to January 27, 2010, from the original January 19 deadline set back in September.

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Oracle to “Vigorously Oppose” the Ruling

The European Commission issued a Statement of Objections on November 9th opposing Sun’s acquisition by Oracle. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Sun, the open-source MySQL database software is the sole issue of concern in the matter. In response, Oracle issued a statement saying the objection “reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open-source dynamics” and the company “plans to vigorously oppose the Commission’s Statement of Objections as the evidence against the Commission’s position is overwhelming.”

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