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Microsoft antitrust diktat set to run until 2009

News Deputy assistant attorney general, J Bruce McDonald, said in the statement: "The Department of Justice is committed to full and vigorous enforcement of the Microsoft final judgment. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is seeking to extend the term... [15 May 2006]

Google must capitulate to DoJ, says judge

News Aclu attorney Aden Fine told Ware that his organisation would "certainly need to know" additional information about how Google's search engine works, in order to rebut the Justice Department study. Search data obtained from Google by the Justice... [15 Mar 2006]

Conway: Ellison is more Genghis Khan than a sociopath

News In a response to a question from an Oracle attorney about his invocation of the term "sociopath," Conway replied, "I was referring to Oracle as a sociopathic company. This strategy is one of the few remaining obstacles to the acquisition, after the... [07 Oct 2004]

Analysis: Ellison's defining moment

Comment As Ellison told Justice Department attorney Claude Scott under cross-examinatio: "From my point of view, there are no benefits if we don't get PeopleSoft. Capping his company's four-week trial against the Justice Department, Oracle CEO Larry... [05 Jul 2004]

Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition

News The outspoken CEO was characteristically unflappable under cross-examination by Justice Department attorney Claude Scott. Under lengthy cross-examination by Justice Department attorney Claude Scott, Ellison remained controlled and soft-spoken. [01 Jul 2004]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.06.04

Round-Up At one point Oracle's attorney Dan Wall said the whole thing was leaving him rather "befuddled" - which is firstly an excellent use of an underappreciated word and secondly a very welcome admission from somebody who should have the clearest idea... [11 Jun 2004]

Oracle trial judge frustrated by "market definition"

News During cross-examination, Oracle attorney Tom Rosch suggested JD Edwards was capable of moving into the enterprise market but had abandoned those efforts in the 1990s because it believed the arena was already saturated during the Y2K preparations. [11 Jun 2004]

DoJ files suit against Oracle's PeopleSoft bid

News In reaching its conclusion, the Justice Department interviewed Oracle and PeopleSoft customers, consulting firms, resellers and potential buyers of the software, assistant attorney general Pate said. We believe this transaction is anticompetitive... [27 Feb 2004]

EU makes a stand on PeopleSoft

News While the success of Oracle's takeover bid appears, in part, to rest on how broadly, or narrowly, regulators define the relevant markets, it will face an "uphill climb" after regulators have publicly redefined those areas of interest, said one... [18 Nov 2003]

Security conference turns nasty over 'employ a hacker' claim

News However, Jennifer Granick, the clinical director for Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and an attorney who has represented those convicted of cybercrimes, argued that some activities in security require a person to have a... [17 Apr 2003]

Feds tighten the net on dope smokers

News Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the government would ask a US district court in Pittsburgh to point the sites to a webpage at the Drug Enforcement Administration explaining why they were taken offline. [25 Feb 2003]

Ballmer contrite in email

News Ballmer's tone stands in stark contrast to remarks made during earlier years of the antitrust fight, such as his famed "to heck with Janet Reno" comment, which referred to the US attorney general during President Bill Clinton's administration. [14 Nov 2002]

Microsoft Verdict: Now all eyes turn to Europe

News But Glenn Manishin, an antitrust attorney with US law firm Kelley Drye & Warren, questioned the impact Kollar-Kotelly's comments on code removal would have in Europe. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Friday approved a November 2001... [04 Nov 2002]

The Trials of Microsoft - lessons from the past (Part 2)

Comment In January 1969, attorney general Ramsey Clark filed an anti-trust suit against IBM for abusing its monopoly position. In 1956 the US Department of Justice (DoJ) won an anti-trust suit preventing IBM from becoming a monopoly in the punch-card... [17 Nov 1998]

ANALYSIS: The Trials of Microsoft - lessons from the past (Part 2)

News In January 1969, attorney general Ramsey Clark filed an anti-trust suit against IBM for abusing its monopoly position. In 1956 the US Department of Justice (DoJ) won an anti-trust suit preventing IBM from becoming a monopoly in the punch-card... [17 Nov 1998]

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