“Standalone devices will soon be obsolete and so consumers must
“simply connect”, warned Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystem’s chairman
and chief executive.”
“”The big challenge we all face is to make them connect and
work,” he said. “The only way we can do this is by getting them to
speak the same language.”
“Pushing the company’s own Java and Jini technologies McNealy’s
crystal ball predicted that Microsoft Windows CE would not win in
the home networking battle.”
“”Don’t go Windows. Linux is free, it’s smaller, faster, better
and has got more people working on it than the entire state of
Washington.”
“McNealy believes more and more companies will adopt the
Linux free model. “Things will go for free,” he said.”