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...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 340; no. 7982; pp. 61 - 63 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
9/7/1996
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| 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. |
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