According to the sources, Ellison is now willing to create a separate entity within a combined Oracle-Sun that houses Sun’s MySQL open database software business in order to get the deal completed before a hearing Thursday by the European Commission.
Read more at New York Post. Via Kris Köhntopp.
UPDATE: this has already been declined by Oracle (thx to @janl).
I hope that mysql does not get merged with the same top boss as Oracle. Mysql and Oracle are too widely used to allow something like this to happen. I’m still annoyed that the US didn’t attach any strings to the merger.