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Oracle with support of US antitrust authorities rejects European Union objection to proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Oracle, the US database systems giant on Monday confirmed that it had received an official objection from European Union (EU) competition authorities to its proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems - - a producer of the widely used Java software. Full Article at FinFacts

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