Robert Thomas

Oracle/Sun Microsystems : The challenge of reviewing a merger involving open source software* I. Introduction On 21 January 2010 the Commission unconditionally cleared the planned takeover of Sun Microsystems (‘Sun‘), a software and hardware vendor, by Oracle Corporation (‘Oracle‘), one of the (...)

"Merger Case M.5421 Panasonic/Sanyo – Batteries included or ‘lost in translation’ ?"* I. Introduction It would be fair to say that consumer electronic products, rather than batteries, are perhaps the first things that come to mind when the names ‘Panasonic‘ and ‘Sanyo‘ are mentioned. Although the (...)