Friday, July 13, 2012

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

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His comments came at a Sun conferenc for users of Java softward which he also said could be usedon netbooks. Oracled (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquire Sun for $7 billion. "kI don't see why some of those devices shouldn' t come from Sun," Reuters quotedd Ellison as saying. "There will be computers that are fundamentally basefon Java." Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computerxs designed to connect wirelessly and are used primaril y for checking email and browsing the Web. The markert for them is expected to grow to between 20 millionn and 30 million unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 milliob sold last year when their sale s took off.
Most PC makers now have a netbookm model and if Oracle does get into the market it will go up againsytthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) (NASDAQ:DELL) and , which either make netbooksw or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a laptopp runningon ’s Android operating system instead of Microsoft which most makers now use.

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