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To: The Ox who wrote (11019)	9/4/1998 7:47:00 AM
From: John Mireley	Respond to of 64865

Java in European set top box. Message 5663480 09/02/98 Cable Europe (c) 1998 Phillips Business Information, Inc. Canal Plus has joined with Pioneer Electronics, C - Cube Microsystems and C - Cube 's DiviCom subsidiary to form a global alliance capable of supplying end to end digital broadcasting systems and competing head on with players such as General Instrument and Scientific-Atlanta. ......... Separately, Pioneer has won an order from Canal Plus for "third generation" digital boxes for France, Spain and Italy. Production has started at its UK plant. Pioneer also announced that it will introduce its own branded boxes in Italy and France this month, adding web- browsing and email independently. Pioneer said in its statement that the alliance's support for open standards would include Java and Javascript. The DVB group has chosen Sun Microsystems' Java software as the likely operating software for the next generation of digital systems.