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That battle came to a head the first week in December, when Sun and Microsoft staged competing press conferences. Sun went first, announcing a long list of companies that had agreed to endorse Java, including IBM, Apple, DEC, Adobe, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Toshiba. Everybody expected Microsoft to strike back, reaffirming its commitment to its own Java-like Visual Basic. But at the last minute, Gates changed his mind, announcing that he too would license Java, while also promising somewhat menacingly to "extend...
...business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive and president of Rupert Murdoch's Delphi Internet Services Corp., to boost Java in both the fast-growing Internet and the far more profitable intranet...
...JAVA Neither island nor coffee, this miniaturized programming language from Sun Microsystems can add sparkle and interactivity to the most sluggish home page on the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of the Internet. Rivals--IBM, Microsoft and even Netscape--have all agreed to adopt it as a kind of Esperanto...
...percent decline in the industrial average. But today's trading wiped out most of the gains made in December and created new worries that for the Dow, up 32 percent on the year, the 1995 rally might be faltering. Hit especially hard today were tech stocks, such as Netscape, IBM and Apple, which continued to weaken after leading the Dow's charge past 4,000 and then 5,000 this year...
...Oracle, IBM and other companies know something we don't? I doubt it. These companies have made it their goal to break the so-called "Wintel" dominance over the computer market (the large number of users using Microsoft products on Intel-based machines). While this announcement certainly raises the question over the future effectiveness of the personal computer model, realistically, Ellison and his peers are spewing hype rather than predicting the future...