Collateral damage.

Discusses the impact on Sun Microsystems of Netscape's battle with Microsoft for the World Wide Web browser market. Java, Sun's programming language, which gained a great deal of popularity with Netscape's help; Two reasons for the fact that Sun is not directly threatened by the prospect of a Micro...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Economist Vol. 340; no. 7982; pp. 61 - 63
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 9/7/1996
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:Discusses the impact on Sun Microsystems of Netscape's battle with Microsoft for the World Wide Web browser market. Java, Sun's programming language, which gained a great deal of popularity with Netscape's help; Two reasons for the fact that Sun is not directly threatened by the prospect of a Microsoft victory; Sun's plans to join the low-end consumer software market; Worldwide server operations system shipments in 19 and forecasts for 1996 and 1997.