Oracle jumped on the transaction that IBM could not complete. The reason for IBM’s failure to finish the deal sheds light on the anti-trust implications that would have resulted. IBM’s large market share in servers overlapped with Oracle’s offerings to a point that would have created a monster that HP and Cisco couldn’t overcome. Obama’s shadow over anti-competitive actions could finally be causing some winds to change . . .
More details on the Oracle/Sun deal, for 7.38 billion, HERE.
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Ian McClure is a former corporate & securities and intellectual property law attorney with Wyatt, Tarrant, & Combs, LLP, and currently he is in-house IP transactional counsel with Intellectual Property Exchange International (IPXI). IPXI is the world’s first financial exchange focused on intellectual property. 
Trevor M. Blum is a former Associate in the Chicago-based, valuation practice group of Ocean Tomo, LLC., an intellectual property (IP) consultancy. Additionally, he provided instrumental research support to Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc., an IP exchange start-up. Trevor holds a B.S. from Indiana University and is currently an MBA candidate at the University of Cambridge, focusing on international business and finance. His interests also include entrepreneurship, economics, and informational visualization. He enjoys running and cycling in his free time. Trevor seeks to bring a transnational business perspective to the blog. 
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