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...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...
...bottom line. Even more interesting, from a 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...
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