Re: Oracle buys Innobase

On Monday 17 October 2005 17:47, Chris Travers wrote:
> Robert Bernier wrote:
> >Hey, don't forget MySQL AB is a European company. This won't fly like it
> > would in the US, the anti-trust laws are stricter.
>
> Why not?  One would be hard to argue that removing MySQL from the market
> place would have any adverse effect on competition.  Are competitors
> then never allowed to merge in the EU?  Besides who would have standing
> to sue? IANAL though and I am an American so I could misunderstand
> something pretty fundamental.

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