EU regulators signalled on Monday they could clear Oracle Corp's $7 billion take-over of Sun Microsystems after the US software company promised measures to ease competition concerns. The European Union's executive European Commission said it was optimistic a "satisfactory outcome" was possible. It had previously objected to the deal, citing possible competition constraints on Sun's MySQL database after the take-over.
Oracle promised on Monday to keep the market open for others to make storage engine software for the MySQL database, said that it would be more open than MySQL's previous owners, and would not ask for commercial licences from makers of MySQL storage engines for application programming interfaces.