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"In the two years since it licensed Java from Sun, IBM has become the Java heavyweight. It has 2,500 Java professionals hard at work--far more than Sun itself--and officials say the company is spending "hundreds of millions of dollars" on development. Java will allow IBM to connect its different computer systems to one another and to other, disparate systems. "
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"And they won't, if IBM sees the future correctly. Oracle's Ellison and Sun's Scott McNealy have been trumpeting the wonders of the "network computer," an inexpensive replacement for the personal computer in a networked world. IBM, however, is actually selling them--100,000 last year, "hundreds of thousands" this year, says Bob Dies, who runs IBM's new Network Computer Division."
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"The spread of network computers also will have "huge applications in education and government," Gerstner says, as citizens use public terminals to do things like check property taxes, and students tap into school servers and the Internet. "We've had one-size-fits-all in the PC space," Gerstner says. "The whole model is going to change."
- Mark |
