Word: java
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...based OS to have any real value to consumers, it has to have programs to run. To fill that hole, Netscape has entered into a tight alliance with Sun Microsystems, a high-end hardware and software company that has developed a Net-based programming language called Java. What makes Java special (besides its name, which comes from the take-no-prisoners, drink-no-decaf corporate culture at Sun) is that it is designed to run across the Internet on any computer. For Web programmers, this means their pages can do more than just display pictures. Java-enabled sites will...
Here's where things get interesting, as Netscape and Microsoft are building their browsers around rival development tool kits, or platforms. Netscape is paired with Sun Microsystems' Java, a programming language that has won the fierce but possibly ephemeral allegiance of Silicon Valley's software jocks (the Netscape/Java alliance, a giddy Sun executive hyperbolized last year, "is the last great hope to stop Microsoft world domination"). Java is starting from scratch, though, and it could take painfully long for its adherents to produce high-quality applications. Microsoft's Active-X platform, by contrast, supports both Java and the venerable Visual...
...Microsystems is the latest entrant in the freeware sweepstakes. The hot product is Java, the programming language that promises a more interactive Web. At last week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun's JavaSoft unit unveiled JavaOS, an operating system the company swears will make money--eventually. The plan is to refine Java and give it away to everyone but Microsoft, Apple and a few other companies that will license the OS for a hefty...
Scott G. McNealy '76, the 40-year-old CEO, president and chair of Sun Microsystems, Inc., on Tuesday enthusiastically introduced Java, a universal programming language that will created enhanced access to the Internet...
...Right now Java obsoletes every programmer on campus," McNealy said...