“IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have ceased development
of the JavaOS for Business, the operating system that was
supposed to ship on both companies’ next-generation thin
clients…”
“Both IBM… and Sun… acknowledge they are planning separate
Java computing launches next month…”
“Sun is in talks to acquire StarDivision… Sun has standardized
on StarOffice internally and offers it free with Solaris 7 for
non-commercial use. The suite has a Java front-end suitable for
thin clients, and would give Sun an opportunity to co-opt Linux
should it choose to do so…”
“Sun could be buying StarDivision with hopes of killing off the
Linux suite, or going into the Linux business through the back
door. They also would get an NT suite.”
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