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...would also satisfy Sun CEO Scott McNealy's strong desire to compete eyeball to eyeball with Microsoft in personal-computer operating systems and software. Indeed, Sun has won glowing reviews for its new Java programming language, which the company pitches as a way to write new kinds of programs that work best on the World Wide Web. Sun might be able to use Java, which does not depend on any one computing system for its success, to reinvigorate the Macintosh line...
...AMONG JAVA'S MOST ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS IS a small but influential group of computer executives who see in the new programming language an almost visionary opportunity. With it, they believe, today's increasingly powerful and complex desktop machines can be replaced with something far simpler and a good deal cheaper...
...idea is straightforward. Instead of buying bigger and bigger hard drives to store programs that seem to grow more monstrous with every upgrade, why not let the Internet be your hard drive? The World Wide Web contains more data than you'll ever use. Java, in theory, can retrieve all the software you need when you need it. All your computer really has to have is a fast processor, a good Internet connection and a few built-in programs to handle E-mail and word processing. If the price is right, predicts Larry Ellison, chairman of software giant Oracle...
...processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...
...much would one of these babies cost? That depends on whom you ask. The price heard most often, from Ellison and others, is $500. Sun is less optimistic; company officials imagine their hot little Java boxes selling for somewhere between...