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To: Mike Milde who wrote (11364)	10/21/1998 10:00:00 AM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

ALERT...SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC. (51-5/16, pre-open) said it has acquired Beduin Communications Inc., a privately held Canadian company specializing in Java application products for consumer devices. The acquisition extends Sun's current offerings in the growing market and supports its goal of providing consumers with network communication products, Sun said. ===================================================================== Hereis some info on their main JAVA product: "...The company has already sold and installed its flagship product, the Impact Browser, to Nortel, which will be incorporated in a new line of wireless smart phones Nortel will introduce in 1998. The Beduin-developed Impact Browser application software is a critical component of the Nortel device, which will be marketed worldwide. Nortel anticipates broad-based acceptance of the product, which will result in a high level of exposure for the Impact Browser..." (http://www.beduin.com/company.html) EKS