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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Tom Day who wrote (7147)1/21/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Chung Yang  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
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Raises lots of Q's. Will JavaOS compete with
Solaris on x86? What HW will it run on? What
distribution channel does Sun plan for it?
Why did IBM choose it for some new systems?

I.e., in what situations is it a best choice?

<<<<

JavaOS will not compete with Solaris on x86. Solaris
is intended to be powerful workstation and server
operating system while JavaOS is intended for thin clients.
An example, JavaOS for running on a pentium computer and/or
a JavaStation connected to a multiprocessor Pentium II system
running Solaris. This would be a very effective client-server
hardware combination. So they are intended to work with each other.

>>>>
Babu, what do you see here that leads you to
believe JavaOS is going to kick a$$?
<<<<

I'll try to answer this also. JavaOS is not out yet.
So it remains questionable. But if all goes well. JavaOS will
be a standard configuration for thin clients in an enterprise
environment.

>>>>
As if that weren't enough questions, here's
one more: Is there any relationship between
JavaOS and Java the language (except for the
name?)
<<<

JavaOS is a layer of software that runs on
a given hardware platform that allows the programs
written in Java the language to execute on.

- Chung
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