

Airtime: Tue. Nov. 3 2009 | 04:27 PM ET
Details on a possible European obstacle in the Oracle/Sun Micro deal, with Richard Waters, Financial Times.
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" And us live from San Francisco Richard waters west coast energy for the FT eight and author of the piece which is being -- right now. On FT dot com Richard -- story."
" How well merry -- hearing that the European Commission now he's very place to issuing formal objection to Oracle's acquisition and sound. And you know this is -- not building up the last couple months here expressed its concerns about the deal. I wish you were giving clear in the US about two months ago. And now they're ready to draw a line in the sun and Oracle has simply not not offered any concessions -- compromises. And say this is the first formal step potentially to actually you're trying to block -- deal."
" Began of course we we did see a lot of club competitors try to block the deal leading up to be up. Sits at the completion of January hearing lots of commentary from the competitors you don't want to to go through great stuff there thanks very much richer we appreciate it -- look for the rest of by any developments on FT dot com."