Ellison suggests rationale for JBoss acquisition

Oracle Corp.'s plans to buy JBoss Inc. were still only a rumor Monday morning, but Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison has already offered plenty of hints why the deal might make sense.

Open-source software attracts developers, and more developers could lead to more sales of Oracle products when deployment time comes around, Ellison said at the Credit Suisse software conference in California last week.

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