Friday, 12 October 2012

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

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His comments came at a Sun conference for userds of Java software which he also said could be used on Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquire Sun for $7 billion. "I don't see why some of thoss devices shouldn't come from Sun," Reuters quoted Ellison as "There will be computeras that are fundamentally basedon Java." Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computers designed to connect wirelessly and are used primaril y for checking email and browsing the Web. The market for them is expected to grow to between 20 milliohn and 30 million unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 million sold last year when theirr sales took off.
Most PC makers now have a netbooj model and if Oracle does get into the market it will go up againstthe . (NASDAQ:DELL) and , whicgh either make netbooks or develo p softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a laptopp runningon ’s Android operating system instead of Microsoft Windows, whichy most makers now use.

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