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To: Mephisto who wrote (22680)	11/10/1999 8:23:00 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

MSFT CE nowhere to be seen: Java, JINI, appliances, SUNW and SONY cbs.marketwatch.com Sony, Sun fuse electronics,'Net access By Bill Clifford, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 6:28 AM ET Nov 10, 1999 NewsWatch TOKYO (CBS.MW) -- Sony Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said Wednesday they'll work together on technologies to improve the links between digital home electronic appliances and the Internet. The collaboration will make it possible for Sony (SNE: news, msgs) to introduce a new generation of audio and video electronic products that offer easy access to Web content and services. Sun (SUNW: news, msgs) sees this as "an enormous opportunity for the millions of Java application programmers...to expand the variety and sophistication of their online offerings" for a broader audience. See the joint statement. The companies said teams of engineers have already begun to develop home gateway software to run on digital television sets and set top boxes. The software will support a combination of home networking and network server technologies, including HAVi/iLINK and Sun's Jini, Java, Java Embedded Server and Sun Management Center. By combining the technologies, Sun and Sony expect to create "a seamless connection" between network servers and stereos, computers, TVs and other home appliances -- not only for distributing online content digitally, but also for providing online customer support services. "With the approaching broadband network era, we are moving in a direction that will fundamentally reshape the relationship between digital audio and video appliances, computers and the Internet," said Sony president Nobuyuki Idei in the statement. Sony shares extended their record-setting rally by 310 yen, or 1.7 percent, to close at 18,300. All the best, Michael