Rumour: EC will say, it's okay

The New York Posts reports about an rumour that the EC will give it’s permission for the Oracle/Sun-Deal:“Oracle’s ‘Sun’day - European official OKs $7.4B merger”:

According to a person with direct knowledge of the talks, European Commissioner Neelie Kroes approved the deal after Oracle agreed to fund the open database software, dubbed MySQL, for the next three years at more than $24 million annually.[...]Kroes is expected to write a clearance decision over the next few weeks and circulate it to member states, with final approval due in mid-January, the source said. [...] Oracle declined to comment.