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Here's a brief look at several news stories related to Oracle's purchase of Sun, along with direct links to Oracle documents detailing their plans for Sun technologies like Java and MySQL on the Oracle website.

Oracle plans for Java

Looking at various Oracle/Sun news stories, it looks like Java is safe for the time being. As one reporter at ZDNet says it, Oracle's Java strategy is 'business as usual'".

In the latest news regarding Sun and Oracle -- which is pretty important to my Java and MySQL life -- Oracle has finally won EU approval for their purchase of Sun, and they are also planning to provide a "Sun Road Map " next week.

From the web browser news desk ... the people at Net Applications released their browser Market Share report recently, and here's a quick look at their numbers:

• IE dropped 6.54% in 2009 to a 62.69% market share
• Chrome gained 3.09% to a 4.63 share
• Firefox gained 2.03% to a 24.61 share
• Safari gained 0.99% to 4.46
• Opera gained 0.21% to 2.40

I was wondering about the #1 reliability ranking Asus received earlier this year for their netbooks. I've never used one, so I wondered if they were really great, or if the data was skewed because their netbooks were so new.

According to a PC World report, their quality rating took a big nose-dive, and Rescuecom's CEO says it's because their products have been out there for a while now. In March, Asus was #1 on the Rescuecom reliability list, but now their score has taken a swan dive from a high of 972 to the current value of 166.

Google will be providing a preview of their Chrome OS to the media today. If you'll recall, Google first announced the Chrome OS back in July, but we haven't heard much about it since then.