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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: david jung who wrote (5502)	3/20/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

To all, It looks like SUNW is being squeezed on another front. H-P stirs its own Java? Hewlett-Packard said to have its own variant of Sun's popular program "In a move that opens a rift with Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. said it has developed its own variant of Sun's popular Java software and plans to market it for use with electric devices and computer printers, according to a published report. Hewlett's plans may create a fissure in the software industry's slowly-cracking alliance against Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The Journal said the Redmond, Wash., software behemoth had already signed on to H-P's new version ofJava along with its Windows CE operating system. ...Joe Beyer, the general manager of H-P's Internet software business told the Journal that his company had acted out of "frustration" over Sun's high licensing fees. " cnnfn.com