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Larry Ellison's webcast announcing the completion of the Sun acquisition got overwhelmed by iPad-mania the same day. So much so, that it appeared as if Oracle had made a rare publicity blunder. But maybe not.

Clunk. That's the sound of this blogger's head hitting her desk. Why? Because now it seems there are clunkers everywhere you turn, and that moniker is now being flogged to sell you everything from sofas to teakettles. Whether you agree or not with the policy underpinnings that drove it, there's no...