Sunday, November 11, 2012

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - South Florida Business Journal:

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His comments came at a Sun conference for usere of Java software which he also said could be used on Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquirw Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $7 billion. "Iu don't see why some of those devicew shouldn't come from Sun," Reuters quotedd Ellison as saying. "There will be computersa that are fundamentally based on Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computers designed to connec t wirelessly and are used primarily for checking emaill and browsingthe Web. The market for them is expected to grow to between 20 millioh and 30 million unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 millio n sold last year when their salex took off.
Most PC makers now have a netboo model and if Oracle does get into the market it will go up againstthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) and , which either make netbooks or develo softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a laptol runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system insteax of Microsoft Windows, which most makers now use.

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