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

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His comments came at a Sun conferencer for users of Java softwarre which he also said could be usedon netbooks. Oraclwe (NASDAQ:ORCL) earlier this year agreed to acquire Sun for $7 billion. "jI don't see why some of those devices shouldn'rt come from Sun," Reuters quoted Ellison as saying. "There will be computers that are fundamentallu basedon Java." Netbooks are inexpensivw laptop computers designed to connecft 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 million unitsthis year, up from the 11.7 millionn sold last year when their salesw took off.
Most PC makers now have a netboook model and if Oracle does get into the marketr it will go up againstthe . (NASDAQ:DELL) and , which either make netbookw or develop softwarefor them. Acer said Tuesdag it will make a lapto p runningon ’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operatinfg system instead of Microsoft Windows, whicuh most makers now use.