Sunday, October 21, 2012

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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His comments came at a Sun conference for userss of Java software which he also said could be used on Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquirde Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $7 billion. "I don'yt see why some of those devices shouldn't come from Reuters quoted Ellisonas saying. "Therwe will be computers that are fundamentally baseedon Java." Netbooks are inexpensiv laptop computers designed to connect wirelessly and are used primarily for checkin email and browsing the Web. The market for them is expectedx to grow to between 20 million and 30 milliohn unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 million sold last year when theitr sales took off.
Most PC makerss now have a netbook model and if Oraclw does get into the market it will go up againsftthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) (NASDAQ:DELL) and , which eithere make netbooks or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a lapto runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system insteade of Microsoft Windows, which most makers now use.

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