Wednesday, June 27, 2012

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - San Francisco Business Times:

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His comments came at a Sun conference for userws 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 thosse devices shouldn't come from Sun," Reuters quoted Ellison as saying. "There will be computers that are fundamentall basedon Java." Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computerx designed to connect wirelessly and are used primarily for checkin g email and browsing the Web. The markef for them is expected to grow to betweej 20 million and 30 million unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 milliojn sold last year when theirf sales took off.
Most PC makers now have a netboook model and if Oracle does get into the marketf it will go up againstrthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) (NASDAQ:DELL) and , which either make netbookw or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a lapto runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Androi operating system instead of Microsoftt Windows, which most makers now use.

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