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Lest some of you are already typing furiously in Java or C++, one word of caution--this editorial is not meant to convince you to give up your Harvard education. On the contrary, despite the urge to pack up and move to Silicon Valley and sunshine, there are several compelling reasons to stay right here...
...with the 5mx and find it a generally agreeable machine. It's twice as powerful as its predecessor, runs for 35 hours on two AA batteries and has a built-in voice recorder that amused my children and thrilled my friends. Geeks will also appreciate Epoc's support for Java. Non-geeks will be happy that it's compatible with most Microsoft programs, including Word and Outlook, and is easy to synch through a cable to your applications on a desktop computer...
...Introduction to Java Programming...
Moses Ma, founder and CEO of the e-commerce software start-up BusinessBots, thinks he has a better way. Sitting in BizBots' San Francisco office, he types in a polypropylene order on his JAM (Java Agent-Enabled Marketplace) prototype for the chemicals industry. A moment passes; then JAM matches Ma's buy order--price, purity, etc.--to a compatible sell order in its order book, and, boom, the deal closes. Phone calls: zero. Time: five minutes. Cost: maybe 10 bucks. "Theoretically," Ma says, smiling, "it makes sense to do everything this...
...week. By a brutal coincidence, his firm faces the unenviable task of defending itself in four different courtrooms simultaneously. Tiny software companies in Utah and Connecticut are taking Microsoft to task for its strong-arm operating-system tactics. Over in California, larger rival Sun Microsystems wants to save its Java programming language from Microsoft "pollution." And oh, yeah, there's the small matter of the antitrust trial, resuming Tuesday in Washington, where Justice Department lawyers are set to wheel out their biggest gun yet, an executive from IBM, the first computer manufacturer to testify against the software titan...