What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us

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My Guess, as requested.

Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to avoid damaging delays to important business mergers (in any country)?

"I do not want to be the person serving Larry Ellison his coffee this morning."
No sane person with a positive IQ could possibly want to serve that man a beverage on any day ending a 'y'

"A bunch of foreigners are delaying implementation of his plans..."
Whilst I realise you are paraphrasing Mr. E's assumed thoughts, which I guess in actuality would consist of a stream of xenophobic obscenities, there is every reason to interfere with the proven monopolistic and tying practices of many American corporations: Microsoft, Apple INTEL, ... that being global consumer protection. Global, you understand. Not 'WTF are these bloody foreigners screwing with us yanks: the missiles are in the air Mr. President'.

"The EU has grounds, of course. There are thousands of Oracle and Sun employees in Europe."
Indeed and there are millions of Coke drinkers in the USA, millions of PC users who might be bettor off using Chrome and millions of Windows users who might be better off running OSX on their DELL supercomputer.

"But if the case drags on this could easily escalate, with American businesses demanding freedom from European interference and Europeans sniffing about monopoly power."
Sniffing, I'd like to do more than sniffing. It's time some big corporations were taken down a peg. Just one peg because we do value their enterprise and risk taking, we do value the products developed by their brilliant engineers ... but we begin to despise the blatant crippling of functionality and restriction of choice built by their management teams to ensure continued shareholder returns. Have a look at the recent article on Backblaze by one of your colleagues at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=23765. Can you honestly tell me that the average ignorant consumer and business is not being milked? If the engineers at the likes of Intel, Dell, M$ and so on were set free ... do you not think there might be an order of magnitude drop in IT costs?

"At some point some American company is going to lose patience and start raising a political stink.What happens then is anyone?s guess. Do you have one?"
Bring it on !!
Stop pussyfooting around and lets open the kimonos. The major IT corporations and media giants are ripping off consumers with an outdated and inefficient business model. Consumers have responded by pirating anything they can lay their hands on. The ISP's stand by profitting from the carnage, refusing to be policemen and complaining only when their bandwidth is saturated by a fast delivery mechanism which spoils their pissant infrastructure design. Innovation is stifled: I mean torrent is seen a naughty word instead of a technology breakthrough.

Instead of the usual uncivilised solution promoted by man: war ... let enlightened governments knock the heads of the intransigent parties together to produce an efficient, environmentally friendly, fair, business model. I am completely opposed to your typically insular, nationlist American stance. Fine thing too for Americans to complain about interference!!

My guess is that human nature will prevail and war is inevitable. Politicians do not have the backbone and integrity for the job and individual corporations will fight to the death.

My hope is that a few clever entrepreneurs ... like Backblaze and UBUNTU ... will threaten to put the powers that be out of business so that they eventually have to surrender. In the meantime my bunker construction is well underway.

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