Oracle’s financial investments for R&D during the 2009 fiscal year

September 24, 2008
Oracle pledges $3bn R&D spend
The Register
Gavin Clarke writes that according to Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, the company will be investing more money in R&D for the next fiscal year.

“Oracle (committed) to spend $3 billion in pure R&D in fiscal 2009, compared to $2.7 billion last year. Phillips promised cash would go into ‘products you own and use everyday’ but didn’t talk about whether there would be further technology and corporate acquisitions – acts that have vastly increased the number of products Oracle must support. Oracle has spent $33 million in five years on more than 50 deals.”

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Asus shows off bamboo notebook
Wired
Charlie Sorrel provides a brief description of Asus’ new bamboo prototype notebook.

“Asus is planning to woodify its U2E notebook and has shown off a prototype at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular in New York. The specs are not finalized, but we’d expect a straight upgrade to the original U2E, and we hope for a few fixes to the annoyances found in the original (crappy speakers, small keyboard and woeful battery life).”

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Some more Windows 7 information for your perusal
CrunchGear
Doug Aamoth includes some findings from Technologizer, on what Microsoft’s Windows 7 release due out next year, or later may contain.

“A fancier calculator, the Office 2007 Ribbon thing may cross over into WordPad and MS Paint, potentially less annoying User Access Control, Control Panel will have System Tray settings, there will be a lightweight version of Windows Media Player for playing videos (and) Internet Explorer 8.”

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