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		<title><![CDATA[EU Hearing Timing on Oracle-Sun May Show Deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report of EU hearing date for Oracle to make its case for buying Sun in December may be a sign of a deal in the works. by Erik Sherman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:58:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU Hearing on Oracle-Sun Set for Dec. 10 [Digital Daily]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come early December, Oracle ORCL will meet with European Commission regulators to urge their approval of its merger with Sun Microsystems JAVA. "Two people with knowledge of the matter" tell Reuters that "Oracle has asked for a hearing which has been fixed for Dec. 10." Should make for an interesting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Senators Ask EC to Sanction Oracle Buyout of Sun]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned as much about the possible loss of thousands of jobs as the survival of a major U.S. corporation -- the long-suffering Sun Microsystems -- a bipartisan group of 59 U.S. senators asked European Commission antitrust regulators on Nov. 24 to end their months-long investigation of Oracle's acquisition of Sun...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:54:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US Senators Tell EU to Approve Oracle-Sun Deal … Typical Americans [Digital Daily]]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Sun Microsystems JAVA beginning to founder as it awaits European Commission clearance of its acquisition by Oracle's ORCL, a group of U.S. Senators is urging the EC to speed up its approval of the deal. In an open letter, the group — led by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EC grants Oracle extra week for USD7.4bn merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission EC is granting Oracle a one-week extension to its deadline for the approval of its proposed USD7.4bn merger with Sun Microsystems. The deadline is now January 27. Oracle requested the extension because of the disruption caused by Thanksgiving to business schedules.     ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle, SpringSource Launch OSGi-Based Eclipse Project]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle and SpringSource have teamed up to propose a new Eclipse project called "Enterprise Modules" and code-named Project Gemini, "to provide a home for subprojects that integrate existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms," the proposal said. According to the proposal, released on Nov. 20, "Gemini will be a parent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:24:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Oracle wins more time for $7.4bn merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission has agreed to a request by Oracle to extend the deadline for approval of its proposed $7.4bn merger with Sun Microsystems, it emerged yesterday. The Commission, which has been holding up the deal because of antitrust concerns over Oracle's acquisition of a Sun-owned open source database company,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:24:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU and Oracle Should Just Say We Want Sun Dead]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the way the EU and Oracle are going over the Sun acquisition, maybe it's time to arrange a funeral for Sun -- and MySQL. by Erik Sherman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:53:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU Objections to Oracle / Sun: Distortion of Market Dynamics Is Bad for Everyone]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Byron submits:    In a November 16 blog post, despite the cursory view of some analysts who say withdrawing from the European Union EU enterprise-software market is not feasible for Oracle ORCL, I wrote that Oracle's withdrawal was not only feasible but something Oracle&#8217;s board is really...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:27:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Oracle Should Leave Europe: A Look at the Numbers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Byron submits:    I said in my post on November 12 Larry Ellison should ask himself whether it is even worthwhile for the new Oracle ORCL/Sun JAVA combination to do business in the information technology IT backwater that is the European Union EU. Why go through the...]]></description>
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