South Korea clears Oracle of anti-competitive acts after software probe


Off the hook: South Korea's antitrust regulator said software upgrades and maintenance are part of Oracle

SEOUL: South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said on Wednesday Oracle Corp did not engage in anti-competitive behaviour following a probe over its practice of packaging new software upgrades into database management service contracts.

South Korea's antitrust regulator last year opened an investigation into the practice to determine whether it was using its dominant market position to shut out rivals. The US company controlled 58.5% of the domestic database management system market as of 2014, according to the FTC, marginally lower than 59.6% in 2011.

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