Word: comdex
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Yesterday was Scott McNealy's day in the sun. Grinning even more than usual, McNealy -- the CEO of Sun Microsystems, a major Microsoft rival -- turned his Comdex keynote into a victory lap. "People ask me what do I think of the findings of fact," McNealy said. "Well, duh. Look in the dictionary under the word monopoly and you see the Microsoft logo." Asked for his remedy in the Microsoft case, McNealy joked with press, "you mean under...
...dominance in desktop operating systems and applications is to move computing to the server. To encourage those who are slow to make the switch, they'll give away their applications for free. Taking a page from the Linux gang - who McNealy managed to deride as "communes" - Sun has saturated Comdex with signs touting Star Office, a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other big applications that Sun is giving away gratis. Tens of thousands of copies of Sun's Star Office were distributed at Comdex, included one copy on each of the 7,000 seats for McNealy's keynote. MORE...
People here at Comdex want to network everything. Sitting down yesterday at lunch to eat an overpriced cheeseburger in the balmy Vegas sun, I ended up talking to two Danes who are visiting the U.S. to drum up business for what they called the world's smallest web server. They don't have a booth, but the company's founder pulled a half-sized business card from his pocket to show me an actual-size photo of a three-chip board that -- they hope -- will put humble devices from security cameras to battery back-up systems to toasters...
That said, shoe-size supercomputers were the only data-crunching gadgets I did not see at Comdex last week. Plenty of ultrathin, superlight laptops were on exhibit though--the industry's response to the critical acclaim that met Sony's launch of the under-3-lb. Vaio earlier this year. While Sony has just introduced an even newer model, the Vaio 505FX, people looking for a great on-the-road machine should check out Toshiba's Portege 3010CT. The Portege weighs 2.9 lbs. and still packs a 10.4-in. active-matrix color screen, a 4.3-gigabyte hard disk...
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