Re: Microsoft to announce buyout of Informix

In <336fce3d.4335614_at_nntp.ix.netcom.com> regnery_at_ix.netcom.com (George Matthew Regnery) writes:
>
>On 6 May 1997 21:33:59 GMT, "Stephen Barrett" <smb_at_mindspring.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Why wouldn't the SEC allow it? The reason the Intuit deal was
 blocked was
>>because the only 2 real competitors in that market is Intuit's
 Quicken and
>>Microsoft Money. Microsoft would have had a monopoly. Why wouldn'y
>>Microsoft be able to buy Informix? Microsft and Informix products
 don't
>>compete directly. MS Sql Server doesn'y compete at the same level as
>>Informix. If Microsoft bought Informix, then it would be the big 3,
 i.e.
>>Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft. This would only increase competition
 which
>>would benefit everyone.
>
>I think it was the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and not the
>Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that blocked the deal.
>Microsoft would have had the largest market share (there are smaller
>competitors, and barriers to entry aren't that great), but it wouldn't
>have been a total monopoly.
>
My error, definitely not the SEC.
Either the FTC or the Justice Department, seems like Janet Reno had her hands in it.

dp Received on Wed May 07 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST