欧盟委员会批准甲骨文无条件批准接管周四Sun Microsystems公司，继deal.The交易的争议，广受诟病的检查还在等待批准其他司法管辖区，包括俄罗斯和中国，但批准在欧盟是一个大对于这笔交易的一步称赞被一些人视为改变整个软件行业，以及被他人认为是世界上最成功的开源项目之一，MySQL数据库的杀手。
Last November the Commission, the E.U.'s top antitrust regulator, expressed serious concerns about the planned deal because it would mean that Oracle, the world's largest proprietary database developer, would gain control of MySQL, an open source database division of Sun that has in recent years been stealing market share away from its more expensive rivals: Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.However, it swept those concerns aside in December after Oracle promised to safeguard MySQL for five years after the deal goes ahead. Controversially, this pledge was made to vendors, software developers and customers of MySQL, and not to the Commission itself.