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Technology has changed most industries a great deal in the last few decades. Think of the technological advances in the medical industry, or in manufacturing, or the energy sector. Now marketing automation software is bringing those same sorts of changes to sales. And the software has become both common and affordable.

Leads generate sales, right? So you could use a lot of brain power sitting around generating leads. And, well, ultimately that's stupid. It's time consuming and drains your energy. It would be smart if there weren't other options, but sitting around generating leads manually ought to be a thing of the past in an age when marketing automation software is so common and affordable.

Marketing automation software makes life simpler by computerizing the tedious and repetitive tasks involved in generating lead and in lead scoring. You can then dedicate your time to lead nurturing, focusing more of your energy on prospective clients and customers. That should mean your time and energy are spent on the most productive part of your job, and that you end up closing more sales and making more money.

Wouldn't you like to focus more of your energy on prospective clients and customers? Time is money. You'll need that extra money - for a golf vacation in the Caribbean or a week in Hawaii.

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Qualcomm and Oracle have announced the availability of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP).

"Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client's pre-integration onto Brew MP gives Java developers access to an even larger universe of mass-market mobile devices," says Oracle vice president of Java engineering Jeet Kaul. "We're pleased to partner with Qualcomm to bring a high-performance and multi-tasking Java implementation to the operators, handset manufacturers and developers using Brew MP."

"Phones running BREW MP will be able to run Java ME apps that look and feel like equal citizens, which is good for Java ME programmers," writes JavaWorld's Josh Fruhlinger. "So, kudos, Oracle and Qualcomm! Your press release is not unsuitably cheery!"

The not-unsuitably-cheery press release is here.

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Oracle's plan to integrate its Java technology with Sun's may face some logistical hurdles.

"The plan on how to merge Oracle's JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Sun's HotSpot JVM is 'still evolving,' Oracle principal engineer Mark Reinhold has said," writes The Register's Gavin Clarke. "Leads from two JVM's engineering teams are 'spending lots of quality time together,' Reinhold told an Oracle Technology Network webcast audience, but he admitted 'it's not an easy problem taking the best of each [JVM] and figuring out the long-term convergence.'"

"Oracle already announced its plans to merge the two JVMs in its statement regarding the future of Sun's products after the take-over of Java's creator by Oracle had been approved by the European Commission," according to The H Open Source. "Oracle acquired JRockit by taking over BEA Systems in 2008, while Sun's portfolio included the HotSpot JVM as a key component of the Java Standard Edition (Java SE)."

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Oracle and Qualcomm have announced the integration of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client with Qualcomm's BREW Mobile Platform (MP).

"Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client's pre-integration onto BREW MP gives Java developers access to an even larger universe of mass-market mobile devices," says Oracle vice president Jeet Kaul. "We're pleased to partner with Qualcomm to bring a high-performance and multi-tasking Java implementation to the operators, handset manufacturers and developers using BREW MP."

"Many of the feature phones offered by Verizon Wireless run BREW," notes Phone Scoop's Eric M. Zeman. "The integration allows the Java virtual machine to operating within the BREW framework without interfering with native BREW apps."

More here from JavaWorld.