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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: Mike Milde who wrote (12490)12/10/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: Bala Vasireddi  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Microsoft has been very good at pre-announcing technologies/products
to "head-off" competitor products in the past. When Sun's Jini
was announced, Microsoft started making noises about their
"Millennium" technology. Wonder how much of it is real and
how much is FUD. Hmmmmm!

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Microsoft is currently developing a system code-named Millennium in
its Microsoft Research Group that largely mirrors Jini, albeit on a
Windows technology framework.

Microsoft said Millennium will result in systems that will "eliminate
the distinction between distributed and local computing," according
to Microsoft. "Millennium raises the level of abstraction to create
a self-tuning, self-configuring system in which programmers are not
even aware of distribution; it happens entirely automatically,"
according to the company.

While several prototype Millennium systems have been built within
Microsoft's labs, the technology, in development since 1996, isn't
expected to result in shipping products for some time.

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