Dear HT and all: Here is some more followup to earlier post I made. Looks to me like SUNW is getting in deeply with some pretty good players. I see they have something going on with CISCO now. JDN
Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy Introduces the .com Home of the Future at the Consumer Electronics Show
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000--
Sun and Partners Showcase Networked Consumer
Products and Services
Giving consumers the opportunity to experience the home of the
future, Sun Microsystems, Inc., today unveiled the .com Home at the
Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The .com Home (Room N242, 2nd level,
Las Vegas Convention Center) introduces consumers to a broad range of
innovative everyday appliances, products, technologies and services
using Java(TM) and Jini(TM) technologies that are expected to
revolutionize the way that people work and play.
The .com Home exhibit demonstrates Internet-enabled solutions
using Sun's technologies from leading industry partners and
manufacturers in the wireless, interactive television and home gateway
markets. Several announcements involving some of these partners and
manufacturers will be made at the show (see accompanying releases).
Sun's .com Home demonstrates how dozens of different consumer
appliances and services can interact seamlessly into a smart home
network, offering a high level of consumer convenience.
Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive officer of Sun
Microsystems, will give a keynote address at CES discussing how open,
network technologies, such as Sun's, are making the service-driven
network and the .com Home a reality for consumers. McNealy will
deliver his keynote address on Thursday, January 6, at 4:00 P.M., and
will participate in a question and answer session for press and
analysts in conference rooms 4 and 5 of the Las Vegas Hilton
immediately following his keynote.
Making the .com Home a Reality
Sun's .com Home demonstration was created largely in conjunction
with GTE and Cisco Systems as part of an overall initiative to create
a "Connected Family" environment. The exhibit highlights networked
products and services in a kitchen, interactive entertainment center,
home control and security system and office setup.
Industry partners including Bosch Siemens, GTE, Cisco, Oracle,
Echelon, Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Sears, Whirlpool and others are
utilizing Sun's open consumer technologies to design and develop
products and services. These innovative new products and prototypes
leverage Sun's Java and Jini technologies and are designed to take
advantage of consumer and business services being dynamically
downloaded from the Internet. Products that were once standalone now
not only have the ability to work together, but also the ability to
leverage new features that manufacturers can provide after the product
is purchased -- providing new capabilities that benefit the consumer.
The growing interactive television market is clearly an area
where content developers are looking for a reliable software platform
upon which to build the next generation of interactive television
services, such as Electronic Programming Guide, Video-on-Demand and
Enhanced Broadcasting. The Java platform, along with the Java TV(TM)
application programming interface (API), provides an ideal development
and deployment platform for emerging interactive services for content
developers.
The development of consumer products and services using Java and
Jini technologies has increased as Sun's consumer technologies have
been embraced as a standard for a wide range of devices across
multiple industries. Java technology's open, cross-platform
capabilities appeal to device manufacturers and service providers,
allowing them to develop and deploy products for consumers rapidly and
cost-effectively. Several industry and standards groups including Home
Audio/Video Interoperability (HAVi), Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM), Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) and the Open
Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) have adopted the Java platform
into their development specifications.
Additionally, more than a dozen wireless industry manufacturers
and service providers have joined together to develop and define an
open standard for wireless devices using Sun's Java platform (see
accompanying release).
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