More good news release on SUNW:
Technology News
Mon, 25 Aug 1997, 10:04pm EDT
BN 8/25 Alcatel, Northern Telecom, Samsung Will Use Java in Phones
Alcatel, Northern Telecom, Samsung Will Use Java in Phones
New York, Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. said
Alcatel Alsthom SA, Northern Telecom Ltd. and Samsung Corp. will
use the Java language in screen phones to connect to the Internet
and send e-mail, expanding the type of devices that use Java.
The three phone makers will use Java technology called
PersonalJava, which is specially designed by Sun for smaller
computer devices such as TV set-top boxes, mobile phones or
faxes. Java can be used to write programs for a variety of
devices and operating systems, doing away with the need to
rewrite programs for each device.
Sun is proposing Java as a more flexible alternative to
software that runs on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
Sun is pushing on many fronts to get Java adopted on a range of
devices, from ``smart cards'' to consumer electronics equipment
to heavy-duty network computers.
``All the telephone companies are looking for new ways to
differentiate themselves and make it easier to deliver a wider
range of devices and services,'' said Chris Thompson, an analyst
at Dataquest Inc. ``This is one of the first areas where you will
see Java move out of the computing environment into consumer
appliances.''
For the phone makers, using Java is designed to cut down on
the number of programs they need to write. For Sun, wider use of
Java can is expected to spur sales of servers, which are central
network computers used to relay and store Java programs.
Northern Telecom, Alcatel and Samsun are expected to
announce that they will introduce their screen phones with Java
by the middle of next year, Sun said.
Sun will announce the use of Java in screen phones at the
Java Internet Business Expo tomorrow in New York, where it is
promoting the computer language to corporations, although there
is still a lack of sophisticated programs written in Java.
Java programs can be stored in a central computer and sent
to users over a network when needed. The language was introduced
about 2 1/2 years ago.
--Heather Green in the Princeton newsroom (609)279-4078 through the Palo
Alto newsroom (415) 326-3613/smw
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