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Ellison Says Oracle Will Continue to Invest Heavily in Java
By: Chris Preimesberger
2009-06-02
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy at the JavaOne conference choose not to discuss the future of Sun's hardware businesses, which include processors, servers, storage arrays, network switches and thin-client terminals. Ellison did say the new Oracle will consider building Java-powered netbooks and phones.Oracle CEO
and founder Larry Ellison, in his first public appearance since Oracle
announced April 20 that it intends to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion,
told a packed auditorium in an informal appearance onstage at the JavaOne
conference in San Francisco that his new ownership will continue to invest
heavily in Sun's
Java franchise.
Ellison also saidalmost in an offhand waythat the new Oracle may get into the
Java-powered netbook- and telephone-making businesses at some point.
Ellison, noting that "all of our middleware is based 100 percent on
Java," said his company has "invested more than anybody else in Java
technology in terms of dollars over the years, and we intend to investand
accelerate our investmentsgoing forward."
Java, Sun's open-source networking programming language, is found in most IT systems,
throughout the Internet and in millions of handheld devices worldwide.
Sharing the stage, Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, however, chose not
to discuss the future of Sun's hardware businesses, which include processors,
servers, storage arrays, network switches, thin-client terminals and a number
of other items.
"Let's focus mainly on Java here today, that'll keep us out of
trouble," McNealy joked.
Since the announcement of the acquisition, there has been speculation by
analysts and industry insiders that Oracle may want to break off Sun's hardware
franchises and sell them to other vendors. Ellison, however, said shortly after
the transaction was announced that he intends to do no such thing.
Java is very attractive for Oracle "because it allows us to extend our own
platform and build applications on top of it," Ellison said.
"Our whole next generation of business applications, something we call our
Fusion Suite of applications, is built entirely on Java. This will be the
first-ever set of ERP and CRM applications
built on a standard platform," Ellison said. "We were able to do that
because Java is open and extensible."
Ellison added that his engineers have contributed a great deal to the Java
franchise over the years.
"We had to add to Java such things as real-time business activity
monitoring, business intelligencea variety of thingsand we could do that
because Java is open," Ellison said. "Customers and ISPs can do the
same things for their own applications."
Oracle May Build Java Netbooks
Ellison also told about 3,000 Java developers at the conference at the Moscone
Center that he may steer Oracle toward new businesses making Java-powered
netbooks and telephones to compete with Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Lenovo, Dell and
other companies.
"I don't see why some of those devices shouldn't come from Sun,"
Ellison said. "There will be computers that are fundamentally based on
Java."
Netbooks are smaller, relatively inexpensive laptop computers with wireless
connectivity that are good for checking e-mail and browsing the Web. Analysts
expect the netbook market to grow to about 25 million units sold in 2009, up
from 11.7 million in 2008.
Ellison and McNealy did not address any of Sun's other open-source software
projects, such as MySQL (database), the NetBeans software tools and several
others.
McNealy said when Sun's and Oracle's research and development divisions join
together in the merger, the R&D budget will total between $4 billion and $5
billion per year, ranking it among the world's top 10 companies.
"That is a very, very positive future for Oracle," McNealy said.
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