Oracle yesterday evening issued the following statement, attributable to Dan Wall, Latham & Watkins counsel to Oracle:

"We've had a very good dialogue with the Department of Justice and we were almost able to resolve everything before the Second Request deadline. All that's left is one narrow issue about the way rights to Java are licensed that is never going to get in the way of the deal.

I fully expect that the investigation will end soon and not delay the closing of the deal this summer."