CASE COMMENTS : UNILATERAL PRACTICES – EXCLUSIONARY STRATEGY – INTERIM MEASURES – SERVERS AND SOFTWARE – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Exclusionary strategy – Interim measures: The French Competition Authority refuses to adopt interim measures against practices in the relational data base managing systems (RDBMS) but investigates the complaint on merits (Oracle)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Aut. conc. dec. no. 12-D-01 of January 10, 2012 relating to a request for precautionary measures concerning practices implemented by Oracle Corporation and Oracle France The Authority has to deal with a referral from Hewlett-Packard (hereinafter 'HP') alleging anti-competitive foreclosure practices on the server market by Oracle through its strategy for developing new versions of its relational database management system (RDBMS) and the pricing of its licences. Its strategy would lead to foreclose HP from the server market in favour of its own subsidiary Sun MicroSystems and would risk placing the consumer in a duopoly consisting of Oracle and IBM, both

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