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To: EPS who wrote (23393)	8/5/1998 1:40:00 PM
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Comments? ============================================================ Wednesday August 5 1:02 PM ET Sun, IBM release JavaOS By Charles Babcock, ZDNet IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are scheduled today to unveil the results of their joint development project, JavaOS for Business, and pose it as a thin-client alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows for desktops on a network. JavaOS for Business will be made available immediately to run network computers, remote terminals and a variety of other distributed machines, such as kiosks and ticket machines. Because JavaOS can be centrally managed from a server and downloaded to clients, IBM and Sun are expected to claim that JavaOS for Business will offer a way to reduce the cost of ownership of desktop clients, sources close to the announcement said. Because the operating system can be downloaded over the network to target clients, customers will save the cost of installing an operating system on individual machines; in addition, customers will be able to add or remove machines remotely, without the management costs of local systems, the two companies are expected to assert. Network computers and other devices on the network will be dependent on Java applications, which thus far are less numerous than Windows applications. Tim Sloan, an analyst at Aberdeen Group Inc., said JavaOS for Business may make the creation of Java applications more likely. The IBM/Sun collaboration amounts to a drive "toward a standard operating system for thin-client computing," he said. JavaOS for Business is expected to receive a show of support from BEA Systems Inc., IBM's Lotus Development Corp. subsidiary, Informix Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., Oracle Corp., the SAS Institute, Sybase Inc. and Tivoli Systems Inc.