EU Regulators Move Toward Blocking Oracle-Sun Deal

Now Oracle may be about to get a taste of its own medicine, after EU regulators took a big step toward blocking its $7.4 billion deal to buy an ailing computer giant, Sun Microsystems. Oracle has spent much of the past decade lobbying to get European Union regulators to force one of its biggest competitors, Microsoft, to loosen its iron-like grip on software code and other intellectual property.