Slightly overcast.

The prospect of Sun Microsystems taking over the troubled Apple Computer company appears to have faded, and some investors are looking more closely at Sun itself. Since the release of Java—its much-hyped computer language for the Internet—in 1995, the company has been doing well. Early in 1996, ho...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 338; pp. 53 - 54
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited February 3 1996
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