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The article reports on the difficulties faced by European cloud service providers in selling their products to national government. It says that Europe has become a far less promising market for such services compared to the U.S. According to chamber member Lord Reid, the House of Lords has decided to take a go-slow approach in the end. Jeff Gould, an expert for SafeGov stated that they have spent a lot of time looking at the privacy policies of the cloud providers in the public sector.

The article reports on a document that indicates the reluctance of Oracle Corp. to abandon its MySQL database in order to secure antitrust clearance in Europe for its partnership with Sun Microsystems Inc. because of its competition with Microsoft Corp. in 2009. A questionnaire issued by the European Commission noted the argument of Oracle that its small and midsize business competes with Microsoft and not with its own products. Oracle refused to comment on the said issue.

Reports on the planned acquisition of Seat Pagine Gialle S.P.A.'s Consodata companies by Acxiom Corp. in Europe. Improvement of the annual financial performance; Expansion of the database of information on consumer lifestyles and behaviors.

Forecasts the implementation of wireless Internet data access and its acceptance by consumers in Europe in 2001.