When commodity prices and energy prices weaken, technology stocks usually pick up the leadership and strengthen because they can move inversely to those two areas.

Oracle is the only company poised to deliver database security technology that customers can use to prevent unauthorized administrator access to sensitive information. With Oracle Database Vault, organizations can easily increase the security level of an existing application without changing the application and still maintain high levels of performance. This improves security throughout the enterprise and helps reduce risks posed by insider threats.

Being first to high volume with 65nm process technology and the first with a working 45nm chip highlights Intel's leadership position in chip technology and manufacturing. Intel has a long history of translating technology leaps into tangible benefits that people appreciate. Our 45nm technology will provide the foundation for delivering PCs with improved performance-per-watt that will enhance the user experience.

Technology has kind of stalled out here, we've got some potholes developing in that former leadership area.

Technology is either beloved or beleaguered, if you've noticed over the last several years. It's just a leadership group. And so when they're beloved, everybody thinks we need to buy them. When they're beleaguered, everybody thinks we need to sell. I think technology is one of the big huge piece of our economy and will continue to be a big piece of the economy in the S&P.

Sun has long understood the need for broad industry coordination on energy efficient technology and sees The Green Grid as a complimentary effort to its work aligning the industry around a standard metric for energy consumption.