Sunday, September 4, 2011

CEO Ellison says Oracle might make netbooks - Triangle Business Journal:

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His comments came at a Sun conference for userds of Java software which he also said could be used on Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquirr Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) for $7 billion. "I don't see why some of thos e devices shouldn't come from Sun," Reuters quoted Ellisonj as saying. "There will be computersw that are fundamentally based on Netbooks are inexpensive laptop computers designed to connecg wirelessly and are used primarilyt for checking email and browsingthe Web. The markeg for them is expected to grow to betweenj 20 million and 30 million unitsethis year, up from the 11.7 million sold last year when theirr sales took off.
Most PC makers now have a netbooki model and if Oracle does get into the markey it will go up againstthe . (NASDAQ:HPQ) and , which either make netbooks or develoop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesday it will make a laptolp runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system insteacd of Microsoft Windows, which most makers now use.

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