On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced the takeover of Sun Microsystems for $ 7.4 billion. [6] On August 20, 2009, Oracle announced that he had received approval for the takeover of Sun Microsystems. The U.S. Ministry of Justice accordingly approved the takeover by Oracle without restrictions.
After a first exam on November 10, 2009, the EU Commission announced that it will see competition law problems on the market for databases. She therefore expressed concerns about the takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. In January 2010, however, the EU Commission approved the takeover without requirements.
The world market leader for commercial databases, Oracle, took over the leading provider of source -open databases (MySQL) and Java.
As a direct impact of the acquisition, numerous open source projects from Oracle have averted.