Sunday, July 24, 2011

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - The Business Review (Albany):

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His comments came at a Sun conference for userse of Java software which he also said could be used on Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquire Sun for $7 billion. "u don't see why some of those devices shouldn't come from Reuters quoted Ellisonas saying. "There will be computers that are fundamentalluy basedon Java." Netbooks are inexpensive laptopl computers designed to connect wirelessly and are used primarily for checkinh email and browsing the Web. The market for them is expected to grow to between 20 million and 30 millionh unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 million sold last year when theit sales took off.
Most PC makers now have a netbooj model and if Oracle does get into the market it will go up againstrthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) (NASDAQ:DELL) and , which eitherd make netbooks or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesdag it will make a laptop runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operatinb system instead of Microsoft Windows, which most makerd now use.

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