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To: E_K_S who wrote (11368)	10/21/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Respond to of 64865

Some more info on Beduin, Eric: Sun acquires Java software house By Alexander Wolfe EE Times (10/20/98, 6:00 p.m. EDT) The move acquires Java technology for Sun which the company believes will better position it to capitalize on a coming boom in Internet-aware consumer devices, such as Web telephones and handheld browsers. Most notably, Sun will gain control of Beduin's Impact, a tightly wound Web browser originally designed to fit into advanced cell phones. "The thing that's attractive about the Beduin browser is its small footprint, which is quite a lot smaller than any browser Sun is working with today," said Mark Tolliver, president of Sun's consumer embedded division. Industry sources believe Impact could displace Sun's Personal WebAccess as the browser Sun uses to entice OEMs looking to build network-aware designs. For its part, Beduin had reportedly been showing Impact to vendors of real-time operating systems in a bid to drum up potential partners. eet.com Michael

To: E_K_S who wrote (11368)	10/21/1998 12:16:00 PM
From: Judd	Respond to of 64865

Sun didn't say what they paid for the company so I can't comment on price. They seem to have abandoned pico-java, so I can't see how they will be making money selling chips. If their dream of having a "computer in every pocket" (I made that up) comes to be then I could see how they could potentially make a lot of money selling software and selling the servers that push the content to our pockets. I have to put faith in Sun's management that they know what they are doing. Judd

To: E_K_S who wrote (11368)	10/21/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 64865

Eric, The company only had 12 employees, so I can't imagine that it cost SUNW an arm & a leg. cheers, cherylw

To: E_K_S who wrote (11368)	10/21/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Do you think it is a good (and profitable) purchase? SUNW keeps buying several "niche market" companies and it is unclear to this investor how all the pieces are going to come together to deliver higher revenues and earnings. Here's a news item that should shed some light on the 'NetDynamics' puzzle piece. biz.yahoo.com ''Sun is committed to its NetDynamics technology, its pragmatic business proposition, and even more so to its proven ability to deliver business value, so we're making NetDynamics software the key component of Sun's enterprise software business,'' said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software. ''To address the heterogeneous nature of today's enterprise environments, Sun will offer customers a best-of-breed software solution on multiple hardware and software platforms. With NetDynamics, we're best positioned to address enterprise environments at the high end, consumer devices at the low end, and to tie in everything in between.' --- SUNW seems to be slamming extremely hard into the whole 'interoperatabilty' thing, where a year ago, they were not (apart from Java). All of SUNW seems to have gotten behind THIS one arrow. It should be apparent soon what a big deal all of this (interop) is, and that the arrow is aflame. JCJ

To: E_K_S who wrote (11368)	10/27/1998 9:59:00 AM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun Lays NetDynamics Road Map Oct. 26, 1998 (InternetWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- Sun Microsystems last week laid out plans for its NetDynamics Inc. acquisition, walking a fine line between pledging support for cross-platform computing while at the same time using the deal to boost Sun technologies, including Java and Solaris. The road map was delivered last week as Sun officially closed the deal for NetDynamics, announced in July. Terms were not disclosed. Immediately, the vendor played up a handful of new customers-including Federal Express Corp. and Countrywide Home Loans-and set the path for future development of the NetDynamics application server. Most significantly, Sun said it will offer the NetDynamics server as a discounted, add-on bundle option for all Sun Solaris servers. The bundle will cost $3,500 for a developer package and $13,500 for a deployment server-a 20 percent reduction from the current NetDynamics pricing model. In the future, the app server and OS will become even more closely integrated, said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software. Mike Onders, chief technology officer of consumer financial services at GE Capital, and a NetDynamics user, said, "The closer Sun can make [the application server] a standard operating system service, the easier they will make it on enterprise customers." The next version of NetDynamics will ship in the first quarter of next year, with full support for Enterprise JavaBeans 1.0 and other Sun Java technologies, as well as support for Microsoft's Component Object Model, via a so-called NetDynamics platform adapter component. Sun also last week said it has licensed Inprise Corp.'s VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service, an object-oriented transaction monitor for distributed applications. That capability will not make it into the next release. "It's important for customers to have a heterogeneous computing environment, and Sun is acknowledging that," said David Kelly, an analyst with Hurwitz Group. "I think it's natural for users to have a question in their mind in terms of how much does Sun actually want to support an NT product. Clearly, it's got to stick in Scott McNealy's throat." Sun executives, however, stressed their support for cross-platform computing. "Conceptually, a services and application server layer widely distributed on a network and closely integrated with an operating system is very important," said Steve Zocchi, director of marketing for Sun's NetDynamics unit. "The fundamental difference [between Sun's vision and Microsoft's] is we don't believe it can be encompassed in a single operating system. The enterprise is not just one OS." According to Zocchi, Sun will augment the NetDynamics application server line with new platforms and capabilities to support and deliver more distributed small-form apps at the Java Internet Business Expo trade show in December. NetDynamics' pragmatic approach to the heterogeneous nature of enterprise back ends has clearly influenced Sun's strategic thinking, Zocchi said, while Sun's vision of a networked environment that includes things such as embedded servers and smart cards will have an impact on future versions of the NetDynamics server. -0- By: Richard Karpinski Copyright 1998 CMP Media Inc. * end of story *