Wednesday, July 20, 2011

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

http://efcg.com/articles.html
His comments came at a Sun conference for users of Java software which he also said couled be usedon netbooks. Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquireSun (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $7 billion. "k don't see why some of thosed devices shouldn't come from Sun," Reuters quotef Ellison as saying. "Therw will be computers that are fundamentally based on Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computers designed to connecyt wirelessly and are used primarily for checkingb email and browsingthe Web. The markegt for them is expectee to grow to between 20 million and 30 million unitsethis year, up from the 11.7 million sold last year when theirt sales took off.
Most PC makersw now have a netbook modelo and if Oracle does get into the market it will go up againstythe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) (NASDAQ:DELL) and , which either make netbookw or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a laptopl runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system insteacd of Microsoft Windows, which most makers now use.

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