Oracle Chief Ellison suggests Oracle netbooks are underway?

This is what you get when you piss big software houses. Now Larry, irrespective of what Oracle will eventually deliver, has Sun a silicon valley darling with new-found love and loads of goodies under his hood, to make any statement that can throw competitors off-guard.

That could mean a lot of things to lot of people. Oracle RAC is being attacked by many vendors, what if soon Oracle will bury all those claims itself! By selling RAC as a free option if you buy the whole stack from Oracle? Anything is possible now.

Welcome Oracle to the one-stop-shopper’s game.

Oracle chief Larry Ellison late Tuesday said (registration required) his company may jump into the netbook field in the aftermath of its buyout of Sun. While referenced casually at the JavaOne conference, the expansion into computers is considered a logical offshoot by Ellison given Sun’s experience in hardware and other fields outside of Oracle’s preferred database apps.

“I don’t see why some of those [netbook] devices shouldn’t come from Sun-Oracle,” he said.

What the netbook would entail isn’t known, though Sun is familiar with both its own Solaris platform as well as Linux. It’s also the founder of Java and could depend heavily on the platform-independent code to offer apps for both its own systems and others. Ellison suggested that Oracle might develop both for its own devices and for platforms like Google’s Android.

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