3 ms·
Oof. From the article: "I don't see why some of those devices shouldn't come from Sun," said Ellison, who runs the world's third-largest software maker. "There
by seregine 17y ago
Oof. From the article:
"I don't see why some of those devices shouldn't come from Sun," said Ellison, who runs the world's third-largest software maker. "There will be computers that are fundamentally based on Java."
My first reaction: the Java environment will attract more enterprise devs than consumer devs. These netbooks won't be popular with consumers.
My second reaction: enterprise netbooks? Sounds like a lot of money to be made, and the margins could be lifted by support contracts, bundling with expensive software, etc. Oracle netbooks as remote consoles for DBAs, for example.
- access_denied 17y agoAnd once all those corporate dudes have those JBooks around all the time, you have a market for consumer apps. Like when PC gaming established itself.