Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:09:59PM -0400, Robert Bernier wrote:

> In canada we have a thing called the competition bureau, a company
> is not allowed to buy another company if its to reduce competition

Yes.  Like Air Canada and Canadian Air. . . oops.  Wait.

It's a bureaucratic leap, for sure, but if the target company is in
sufficiently bad straits, nobody will stop it.  Being unable to
control your central technology might well qualify.

A

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