Saturday, May 19, 2012

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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His comments came at a Sun conference for usere of Java software which he also said couldr be usedon netbooks. Oracle earlier this year agreed to acquire Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $7 billion. "I don't see why some of thos e devices shouldn't come from Sun," Reuters quoted Ellisonb as saying. "There will be computers that are fundamentally basedxon Java." Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computerse designed to connect wirelesslu and are used primarily for checkin g email and browsing the Web. The marketg for them is expected to grow to between 20 millionn and 30 million unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 milliohn sold last year when their salese took off.
Most PC makers now have a netboo k model and if Oracle does get into the market it will go up againsgtthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) (NASDAQ:DELL) and , whichy either make netbooks or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a lapto p runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operatingy system instead of Microsoft which most makers now use.

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