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To: Mark[ox5] who wrote (51)	1/24/1999 2:12:00 AM
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Sun puts Java on display By Leyla Kokmen Denver Post Business Writer Jan. 23 - Sun Microsystems Inc. on Friday officially opened its Broomfield Java Center, where it will help customers develop uses for its Java programming language. The Java Center will serve as North American headquarters. There are a dozen Java centers throughout the world. The Broomfield center is located on Sun's campus, which opened in August in the Interlocken business park. It has about 1,500 employees in four buildings. Sun, based in Palo Alto, Calif., builds computer products that run over networks. Its Java programming language, developed in 1994, runs on any system, allowing devices ranging from personal computers to digital datebooks to run the same programs. Its Java Center is a way to spread knowledge about Java programming to increase usage of the language around the world. Training Java programmers is essential for Sun, especially since the number of Java programmers is expected to grow from 1 million this year to 1.5 million in 2002, the company said. In the Java Center, Sun consultants will help customers learn how to use the Java language and Sun's new Jini technology, a simple method of connecting everything from cell phones to cars to microwaves through one network. Those customers, in such businesses as automobile manufacturing, transportation, banking and telecommunications, want to learn "how to use Java and Jini to change the rules of industry,'' said Mark Bauhaus, director of Sun's Internet/Java consulting practice. Sun has already worked on more than 300 Java projects for customers around the world, he added. Sun also demonstrated products that make innovative use of Java, which can be stored, for example, within a chip on a ring or in a plastic card. Jini, Sun's new technology developed in Colorado by its research and development division, Aspen Smallworks, also was on display. John Prentice, a Java consultant at Sun, showed how Jini allows a seamless hookup of a printer, disk drive and digital camera to a laptop. Each device is programmed to announce its presence on the network without having to load numerous disks and files on the computer, so when you go to print or store a document, the laptop knows what's available. "It's as simple as plugging it in,'' Prentice said. This week, Sun released its earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 27. The company earned $272.3 million, or 67 cents per share, up 18 percent from the same period last year, when it earned $223.2 million, or 57 cents per share. Sales rose 14 percent to $2.78 billion from $2.45 billion. The quarterly results were in line with most analysts' expectations that it would earn 66 cents per share. Sun's board also approved a 2for-1 stock split. The company's shares have almost doubled over the past three months. However, after the company released its earnings, shares fell $7.125 to close at $98.25 Thursday, then slipped 25 cents Friday to close at $98.