SAN FRANCISCO: European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S.
The so-called "statement of objections" that Sun received Monday from the European Commission isn't entirely surprising, since the commission already had expressed concerns about possible harm to the database market from an Oracle-Sun tie-up when it launched a formal antitrust probe of the deal in September.
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