__/ [ yttrx ] on Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:08 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> IBM gets US antitrust nod to buy MRO Software
>>
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>> | Antitrust authorities have closed their review of the cash
>> | transaction without taking action to block it, the Federal Trade
>> | Commission said in a notice.
>> `----
>>
>> http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060830/mrosoftware_antitrust.html?.v=1
>>
>> It makes one wonder if US antitrust is truly a toothless tiger that just
>> cannot be bothered. This promotes giants and monopolies (including Google
>> in the information space and even Walmart, which has stretched overseas).
>>
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_Microsoft_Corporation
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acquisitions_by_Google
>
> IBM is a giant, but is hardly guilty of anti-trust activites---so far.
>
> They don't buy competitors--they buy innovators. That's the difference
> between IBM and a company like oh..say...Oracle.
One company they could never successfully buy was MySQL. They tried. Same
with JBoss. They still retain that spite for Red Hat...
I think that Oracle's OSS shopping spree is now over. I think they paid off
all these startups and release dummy competition such as BerkeleyDB.
What's the difference between Larry Ellion and God?
God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison.
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