Sun Microsystems, a world-renowned server, software, networking and SPARC architecture manufacturer, was founded in 1982 to provide affordable workstations for CAD/CAM applications.

Currently, the company's clients in Russia include the largest banks, government agencies, telecom operators and industrial enterprises.

Sun Microsystems offers a wide range of software and hardware products.

Hardware and software solutions from Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems' portfolio of software and hardware products allows you to create Information Systems of any scale and complexity: from user workstations to computer centers, from operating systems and office suites to application servers.

Entry-level servers. High performance, reliability, rack-mountability, combined with a low price, have made these servers extremely popular both in large computer centers and in small companies and workgroups. The range of servers offered extends from single- to eight-processor servers running OS Solaris or Linux - now you have the opportunity to choose exactly what you need. The latest update to this family is the latest Sun Fire V20z, a dual-socket server based on AMD Opteron processors that delivers high performance, easy administration, a new architecture, and a competitive price.

Additional information: http://ru.sun.com/products/servers/entry

Enterprise department servers and midframe servers. Representatives of this class have long and firmly won leading positions where reliable operation of business-critical applications is required - server consolidation, data storage, data mining, online transaction processing (OLTP) systems, large databases, as well as production management systems. The latest addition to this family, the Sun Fire E2900, E4900 and E6900 are the first UltraSPARC IV servers to feature on-chip multi-threading technologies. According to various studies, their performance is twice that of their predecessors - servers based on the UltraSPARC III processor.

Additional information: http://ru.sun.com/products/servers/midrange

Data center servers. This class of servers provides the highest level of reliability and scalability and is designed for work in the field of network computing - for example, such business-critical applications as server consolidation, application migration from mainframes to open architecture systems, high-performance computing, decision support systems, systems data storage, structured information storage systems.

This family is represented by both servers based on UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC III processors - the customer can choose what is more suitable for the tasks of his business. The two latest servers based on the UltraSPARC IV processors, the Sun Fire E25K and Sun Fire E20K, offer twice the performance of their UltraSPARC III-based predecessors.

Additional information: http://ru.sun.com/products/servers/highend

Storage systems. For reliable storage and operational operation, Sun Microsystems develops and produces disk arrays and magnetic tape libraries of the StorEdge family. StorEdge disk arrays allow you to build a wide range of data storage solutions for data centers of any size. A wide range of magnetic tape libraries allows you to create archiving and backup systems.

Additional information: http://ru.sun.com/products/storage

Workstations and thin clients. High-performance Sun Ultra workstations built on SPARC architecture processors are ideal for software development, image processing, and engineering design work. Ultra-thin clients will provide mobility, ease of use and security of data storage. In addition, they have extensive modernization capabilities.

Additional information: http://ru.sun.com/products/workstations

Sun Java System. The Sun Java System platform is a radical new approach to how enterprises acquire, develop and manage software. Currently, only Sun has the experience and product portfolio to offer such a unique and industry-changing strategy. With the Java System, network services and business-critical applications are up and running faster, easier, and at a lower cost than before. Now our customers can spend more time innovating and achieving better results in their work.

Additional information: http://ru.sun.com/products/products/javaenterprisesystem

Software from Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems aims to create the most complete solution to ensure continuity of web services with minimal complexity and cost. Sun Microsystems software, including Java technologies, the Solaris operating system, Sun Java System middleware and N1 data center management solutions, are industry leaders and provide added value to users.

• Sun is a leader in x64 and UltraSPARC processor innovation and delivers high-performance, scalable systems that make better use of physical data center space.

• Sun provides a variety of system design innovations, from processor, server and operating system to data center management software and integrated middleware.

• Sun provides more choice, from the processor to the operating system.

• Sun combines servers and services into one solution, and offers unique remote connectivity and online update services to save time and money.

• Sun delivers end-to-end investment protection and compatibility through the use of the Solaris 10 OS. Multi-threading capabilities native to Java software, operating system and processors enable you to outperform your competitors, delivering faster speeds, better performance and lower costs.

Storage systems

Sun Microsystems combines server and storage expertise (StorageTek) with technologies and techniques that simplify customer data, protect it, manage identity, improve recovery and archiving, and expand the use of that data.

• Sun offers its customers additional capabilities in the field of information storage and data archiving:

• Benefit: An attractively priced data management solution gives you a competitive edge.

• Access: the ability to obtain the necessary information at any time and in any form, regardless of its structure, format or location.

• Simplicity: an environment that is easy to manage.

• Reliability: ongoing confidence in the integrity of data—that is, that it has not been altered, corrupted, or read in an unauthorized manner—from creation to deletion.

• Sun's strengths lie in its unique approaches to data and storage systems. Sun and StorageTek provide a single, most comprehensive offering of enterprise storage systems, data management systems and services, including heterogeneous systems of disk, tape and software products and services to optimize IT infrastructure.

• Sun disk storage systems outperform the competition (the Sun StorageTek 6920 beats HP by more than 140% in the SPC-1 benchmark and beats IBM by more than 70%) and is backward compatible with our NAS system. unlike NetApp products. Sun Microsystems Corporation has unique experience in creating ILM solutions that support the identification and implementation of systematic approaches to information security. Our competitors, on the other hand, focus on point products (EMC and NetApp) and expensive custom systems (IBM).

• Sun is committed to providing world-class innovative services, including:

• Sun simplifies management using a single Web-based platform.

• Sun offers more secure in-host, in-band, and in-device approaches to data encryption.

• Sun, backed by a full range of content and archive management solutions, implements the best policy-based software for data migration and archiving, thereby offering the industry's only truly end-to-end identity solution for content delivery, monitoring, compilation reports, data transfer and archiving.

• Using Sun x64 systems, the Sun Microsystems StorageTek 5320 NAS delivers an all-time low total cost of ownership and excellent price/performance ratio.

• Sun offers Sun Managed Operations for Storage and Sun Host-based Data Migration Service.

Software

Sun offers an open, fully integrated software platform on a non-commercial basis or at predictable prices. Companies using the Sun platform as the core of their infrastructure can benefit from Sun's comprehensive service support.

• The advanced Solaris 10 operating system can serve as the basis for the customer’s IT infrastructure.

• Wide choice: hundreds of x64 and UltraSPARC processor-based systems support this OS; 6 million registered users.

• Lots of innovations: Solaris ZFS file system, dynamic tracing DTrace, Solaris containers, high-performance network computing, secure execution, proactive self-diagnosis combined with enterprise quality.

• Open Source and Non-Commercial: The OpenSolaris.org community brings an innovative approach to the Solaris OS.

• Sun open sourced the Java platform under the GPL (November 2006).

• The Java Enterprise System is an open, freely available, fully integrated software platform at predictably low prices with world-class support for customers who use it as the core of their infrastructure.

• Java System Identity Manager is the only complete user experience and metadirectory management solution on the market that simultaneously improves enterprise information security and significantly reduces time to return on investment.

• The Java Composite Application Platform Suite contains everything a customer needs to develop and deploy a service-oriented architecture that enables application reuse, provision of new services, and rapid integration of legacy and packaged applications.

• Customers can pilot development of their core applications using Sun software free of charge, thereby reducing costs and risks. When you deploy these applications, the benefits are even greater because Sun provides all the support, guarantees, and reimbursements you need through your subscription.

• For system administrators and IT managers looking to accelerate implementation and leverage the experience gained from pilots, Sun software is the easiest way to prepare, coordinate, pilot, and deploy applications.

• Sun pre-installs and tests its software on various platforms; Applications similar to those optimized for running on the Solaris OS can be implemented for other operating systems - Linux, Windows and HP-UX.

• Sun provides its developer communities with a wide range of fully integrated, state-of-the-art tools that can be downloaded free of charge:

• NetBeans Software: A complete tool for developing multi-platform Java applications.

• Integrated development environment Sun Java Studio Creator: a tool for visual programming of Web applications.

• Sun Java Studio Enterprise Software: A complete solution for developing, testing and deploying applications.

• Sun Java Studio Mobility: Emulation and development tools to help you create applications for mobile devices.

• Sun Studio Software: Full native application environment support + C/C++/Fortran language compilers for UltraSPARC and x86 processors.

Services

Sun helps automate and simplify IT services, thereby reducing the costs associated with delivering them. Sun Microsystems works with its customers to help them grow their businesses through technology rather than headcount, so customers can focus on business success without the distractions of IT issues and keep IT costs under control.

• Sun offers an innovative approach to always-on, subscription-based services that help customers, partners, and developers remotely interact with Sun Microsystems and gain access to the latest information and updated applications.

• Sun is simplifying its portfolio of offerings and integrating Sun computing, storage and software services to provide competitively low prices.

• SunSpectrum Support is Sun's most important customer service.

• Sun Professional Services - a suite of proven, highly reliable professional services Sun, speeding up solution selection and deployment.

• Sun Managed Services - these services allow you to create a variety of flexible heterogeneous IT infrastructures and provide management tools.

• Learning Services are training and certification services useful at all stages life cycle IT project.

• Sun Grid (network.com) allows you to use high-performance computing resources on a CPU/hour or GB/month basis.

• The key to Sun Microsystems' success is our customer satisfaction and loyalty. That is why we constantly analyze customer opinions and strive to improve the work of our customer service.

Facts and figures

Servers

• The Sun Fire X4200 and Sun Fire X4600 servers received Technology of the Year awards from InfoWorld. The Sun Fire X4200 server was awarded in the "Best Server" category, and the Sun Fire X4600 was awarded in the "Best High-Performance Server" category (InfoWorld, 01/01/2007).

• Sun Fire V490, V890, E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K servers and UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8 GHz processors:

• World-leading performance and industry-leading investment protection for midrange and data center servers.

• Accelerates applications by more than 8 times compared to servers based on previous generation UltraSPARC II processors.

• Twice the volume random access memory for the US IV+ processor 1.5 GHz and increasing the throughput of the I/O subsystem up to 33%.

• Ideal for enterprise applications, consolidation projects, and application migration from mainframes.

• Sun Fire X2100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers with new generation AMD Opteron processors (1.8-2.6 GHz); best performance performance and energy savings among x64 architecture servers for Solaris, Linux and Windows applications. Both servers are ideal for deploying large-scale systems designed for high-performance computing and Web infrastructure.

• Sun Fire X4500 is the world's first hybrid data server with four processor cores, combining the industry's highest throughput and a 24 TB storage device with nearly 5 times the data density of traditional solutions at about half the price (from just $2 per gigabyte).

• The new Sun Fire X4600 server is the world's first x64 server with 16 processor cores in a 4 RU chassis, delivering more than 2x the performance of Intel Xeon MP processor-based systems.

• With 10 world performance records, the Sun Fire T1000 server outperforms all 1RU systems. The Sun Fire T2000 server delivers 5x the performance, takes up 4x the space, and uses 5x less power than competitive 4-way systems.

• Sun x64 servers and UltraSPARC processor-based systems have set more than 175 world records across 25 workloads and outperform the competition in performance and price/performance.

Storage systems

• The Sun StorageTek 6140 storage system won China InfoWorld's 2006 Editor's Choice Award. China InfoWorld, 12/18/2006.

• Sun Microsystems Corporation tops the rankings for technical support for enterprise tape libraries. Storage Magazine, “Quality Awards II: Leading Libraries,” 01/15/2007.

• Sun StorageTek FlexLine 6000 Series systems are ranked #1 in the Diogenes Labs Storage Magazine Quality Award for Supplier Competence and #2 overall for Initial Product Quality, Reliability, functionality And technical support, ahead of HP, IBM, Dell and EMC in the “Mid-Class Information Arrays” category. Storage Magazine, “Quality Awards II: EqualLogic Named Top Midrange Array,” 12/14/2006.

• ILM Provider of the Year Award 2006 (at The Storries annual awards ceremony in the UK).

• Sun StorageTek Business Analytics storage system received a Big Bytes award from Byte and Switch for Best Storage Management Software. 09/13/2006.

Software

• Solaris Cluster software is the world's only integrated cluster solution. It supports all major open source applications offered by other vendors and provides 24/7 access to all services running on SPARC and x86/x64-based systems. CXOtoday, 01/10/2007.

• NetBeans 5.5 received InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for Best Innovative Java Integrated Development Environment. InfoWorld, 01/01/2007.

• Solaris OS: 125 world records, more than 5,000 applications, more than 800 supported platforms, 6.8 million registered users - more than the number of OS copies shipped by all competitors combined in the last 24 months.

• Sun Microsystems is the largest contributor to open source software—three times more than IBM and five times more than Red Hat, according to the Economic Impact of Open Source Software on Innovation and the Competitiveness of the Information study. and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector in the EU" (The economic impact of open source software on the innovation and competitiveness of European ICT companies). UNU-MERIT, 20.11.2006.

• Sun Microsystems ranked top in the Forrester Wave: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites for Q4 2006 with its acquisition of SeeBeyond Technologies. Forrester Research, 12/20/2006.

• Gartner's recent User Provisioning Magic Quadrant placed Sun Microsystems in the Leaders quadrant; in the report "E-APS Magic Quadrant 2005" (Platforms for launching applications at the enterprise level) - to the Visionary quadrant ("Innovative companies"); in the report “Integration Software Gartner Magic Quadrant 2005” (Integration software for backbone systems) – to the “Leaders” quadrant; in the report "Web Services Platforms Gartner Magic Quadrant 2005" (Platforms for Web services) - to the Visionary quadrant.

• 2006 CRN Channel Champions: Best Network Operating System Award (Solaris OS).

Günstige Shishas kaufen
Unsere Mitarbeiter werden Sie gerne beim Kauf einer Shisha Online oder telefonisch beraten. Haben Sie sich im Shisha Shop beraten lassen, aber Sie hätten es lieber ein wenig günstiger, dann lohnt sich ein Blick in unserem Online Shisha Shop, um günstige Shishas zu kaufen. Auf der suche können Sie sich mit den Schlagworten: “Shisha billig online kaufen” einen Überblick verschaffen, welche Shishas, ​​zu welchen Preisen angeboten werden. Bitte beachten Sie, dass es auch bei günstigen Shishas zu Preisunterschieden kommen kann. Um eine Shisha in einer passenden Preisklasse zu finden, setzen Sie Prioritäten:

Nutzen Sie die Shisha zuhause oder unterwegs?

Für unterwegs: Die Shishas, ​​die Sie bequem unterwegs verwenden können haben eine Göße von ca. 25-45 cm und passen somit in eine Reisetasche. Sie sind perfekt, um sich mit Freunden im zu Park treffen, oder sich einen Tag am Strand zu versüßen. Dazu kommt, dass sie preislich mit 10 € – 50 € recht günstig und somit für jedermann erschwinglich sind.

Wie oft verwenden Sie die Wasserpfeife?

Wenn sie öfter eine Shisha verwenden möchten empfiehlt es sich, darauf zu achten das Die Shisha leicht zu reinigen ist, es gibt auch extra Zubehör die das Reinigen erleichtert.

Ist Ihnen die Qualität wichtiger, oder der Preis?

Gute Shishas die eine Ordentliche Größe und Volumen aufweisen und Qualitativ hochwertig Verarbeitet sind haben einen stolzen Preis. Dagegen Stehen billige Asia Importe die aus Minderwertigen Materialien Gefertigt werden. Ein Fachhändler kann sie diesbezüglich gut beraten.

Wie viele Personen sollen mitrauchen?

Wenn Regelmäßig mehrere Personen gleichzeitig die Wasserpfeife Rauchen möchten, sollte man darüber nachdenken, sich Wasserpfeifen mit mehreren Schläuchen zu kaufen. Es schadet auch nicht, wenn die Shisha ein gewisses Volumen bietet. Diese Fragen gilt es zu beantworten, bevor Sie sich erkundigen welche Shisha Sie kaufen können.

Aber welche Arten von günstigen Shishas können sie kaufen?

Es gibt Reiseshishas, ​​die Sie bequem unterwegs nutzen können Der Klassiker sind die Shishas, ​​die Sie stationär, z.B. zuhause verwenden Die E-Shisha wird mit Liquid gefüllt, eng verwandt mit E-Zigaretten. Ideal für Unterwegs. Für Anfänger Empfiehlt sich eher eine kleine Shisha, somit ist der Wertverlust, falls diese bei Ungeschicktheiten kaputt geht, nicht ganz so hoch.

Bester Shisha Tabak
Bei der Suche nach den Besten Shisha Tabak kann es vorkommen das sie sich von dem Angebot erschlagen fühlen. Es ist empfehlenswert sich etwas durch zu testen bis sie den richtigen Wasserpfeifen Tabak Für sich gefunden haben.

Mit guter Qualität und Hochwertigkeit bestechen folgende Tabak Marken: Aqua Mentha Tabak mit Sorten wie Aqua Blubry (Minze & Blaubeere) oder Aqua Chrry (Minze und Kirsche). Ebenfalls stark gefragt sind die Sorten von Adalya zum Beispiel Tabaksorte Love 66 (Honigmelone, Maracuja, Minze & Wassermelone) oder Adalya Tabak Mng Tango Ice. Auch sehr beliebt ist Chaos Tabak – Medusa (schwarze Traube, Blaubeere und Menthol) und Aqua EXOTIC von Aqua Mentha Tabak. Von Al Waha Tabak stehen unter anderem die Sorten Grap Min (Geschmack nach Traube, Minze) und Amor (Geschmack nach Kiwi und Minze) zur Auswahl. Weitere Hersteller und Sorten aus unserem Sortiment sind zum Beispiel Chaos Tabak mit Adios Amigos (Apfel, Maracuja), 187 Tabak mit California Love (Pineanas, Mango, Zitrone) und 7 Days Tabak mit Sour Bomb Classic (saure Apfelringe) zur Auswahl.

Shishakohle: Holzkohle & Naturkohle für Wasserpfeifen?
Es ist bei Shisha Raucher Kreisen verpönt selbstentzündende Kohle zu nehmen. Wer sich nicht total blamieren möchte sollte sich schnell dafür entscheiden seine Shisha nur mit Naturkohle für Wasserpfeifen zu beheizen. Diese überzeugt durch 100% natürliche Zutaten, meist werden Kokosschalen verwendet. Obwohl das Anzünden der Sishakohle etwas schwieriger als bei selbstentzündender Kohle ist, besticht die Naturkohle hat viele Vorteile. Neben einer langen Brenndauer bis 90 Minuten überzeugt die Kohle mit einer hervorragenden Hitzeentwicklung und verbrennt während des Rauchens vollständig. Als Reines, unbehandeltes Naturprodukt verbrennt die Naturkohle geschmacksneutral, ohne den Shisha Geschmack des Tabaks zu verfälschen. Wenn Sie öfter Shisha rauchen ist es empfehlenswert einen Kohleanzünder zu kaufen, zur Auswahl stehen Elektrische oder Gas Kohleanzünder.

Was it eine Shisha bar?
Eine Shisha Bar ist eine Gastronomie, in der als Service das Wasserpfeifen Rauchen angeboten wird. Sie führen meist die beste Auswahl an Getränken, diversen Kaffee- und Teespezialitäten, Softdrinks, Mixgetränke mit oder ohne Alkohol, und bieten kleine Köstlichkeiten. Sie ist ein idealer Treffpunkt nach der Arbeit, Uni oder Ausbildung, nach dem Ausgehen. Auch für einen entspannenden Zwischenstopp bietet sich eine Shisha Bar an. Viele möchten aber auch einfach nur eine hervorragende und authenticische, aromatische Wasserpfeife genießen. Die einen möchten dort in Gruppen feiern und für andere kann das Shisha Bar als Rückzugszone dienen. Viele Bars können für Parties und Veranstaltungen angemietet werden. Sportübertragungen und Medienpräsentationen sind dort üblich. Zu beachten ist, dass der Verkauf und Konsum in Deutschland ab 18 ist. Es ist dementsprechend anzunehmen – und zu hoffen, unter 18-Jährigen der Aufenthalt in Shisha-Bars verwehrt wird. Lassen Sie sich in die Welt der Shisha & Wasserpfeifen entführen und besuchen Sie unseren Shisha Shop!

Rising Sun Company
Tuesday global computer network The Java computer language, developed by Sun Microsystems, was officially distributed on the Internet. The company's executive director, Scott McNealy, has high hopes for his brainchild, intending with its help to radically change the balance of power in both the hardware and software markets.

Sun King
Scott J. McNealy, the #1 manager at what is claimed to be the #1 computer company, was born in Columbus, Indiana, in 1954. Scott's father, R. William McNealy, was vice chairman of American Motors Corp. As a teenager, Scott spent evenings with his father working on AMC documents and playing golf with auto industry luminaries such as Lee A. Iacocca. He says he saw AMC being driven out of business by competitors because it didn't have significant market share, and he vowed he would never let that happen to his own firm.
Scott's leadership abilities showed up at school - Cranbrook Kingswood School (located north of Detroit) - he became captain of the school tennis team. At Harvard, he became interested in economics, thanks in large part to classmate William J. Radachel, who later became Sun's chief information officer and head of the corporate development program. McNeely was not an outstanding student. He was rejected by business schools, both Harvard and Stanford (the latter three times). Therefore, in 1976, he went to work as a foreman at the Rokwell International Corp. plant. in Ashtabula, Ohio. The plant was rushing to produce large numbers of car hoods in anticipation of the strike. As a result of two months of working 14-hour shifts, McNeely became overexerted, contracted hepatitis and was hospitalized for a month and a half. And then he finally entered Stanford on the fourth attempt.
Student habits and a selective curriculum did not make McNeely "example material for the making of an executive director." First, he focused on manufacturing, in the days when the way to the top was through finance. Moreover, according to friends at the institute, Scott preferred playing golf to attending lectures. McNeely himself explains that he did not attend those classes that, in his opinion, were not conducive to getting a job in the future. With a business school degree, he held various positions at tank manufacturer FMC Corp. and minicomputer company Onyx Systems.
In those days, he seemed reluctant to follow in his father's footsteps, believing that it was his workaholic habits that led to his parents' divorce. Scott dreamed of owning a small car shop that he could pass on to his heirs and retire early.
In 1982, an event occurred that changed McNealy's fate. An acquaintance from Stanford, Vinod Khosla, suggested that McNealy and computer designer Bechtolsheim create the Sun company. Scott's manufacturing experience helped the fledgling company cope with rapidly growing demand, and as a result, the firm's sales grew from $9 million in 1983 to $39 million in 1984. McNeely says he ramped up production so much that soon there were not enough orders for the products he produced. He tried to find intermediaries. But then new orders blocked financial opportunities for expansion. McNeely began looking for someone who could help, and found him in Eastman Kodak Co., which was using Sun workstations in one of its projects.
McNealy's business acumen greatly impressed Philip Samper, then Kodak's executive vice president. In 1984, in exchange for a $20 million investment, Kodak insisted that McNealy be named president of the company. (Sumper later served as head of Sun's computer division.) Around the same time, Sun CEO Khosla's dispute with the board led to his resignation, and McNeely was named president on an interim basis until the board found a more experienced manager. But luck smiled on Sun, and the directors stopped looking for a replacement. McNeely was officially named chief executive at age 30.

Sun's business areas
Workstations ($2.7 billion in annual revenue). Sun lost its lead to Hewlett-Packard, but hopes to win back with new UltraSPARC machines. Competitors in this sector also include IBM, Silicon Graphics, and Digital Equipment.
Servers (annual revenue - $1.3 billion). In this area, Sun has achieved the greatest success in corporate computing and Internet-related business areas. The competitors are the same as in the workstation sector.
Computer services ($885 million annual revenue). The demand for consulting on the Unix operating system and network computing is growing, but competition from firms such as EDS, IBM, and Oracle is also increasing.
Software (annual revenue - $395 million). The Unix operating system is the most popular operating system in network computing, but it is difficult to sell to those who use computer equipment, produced by other companies. The main competitors in the sector are Microsoft and IBM.
SPARC technology (annual revenue - $99 million). Sun's SPARC chips are leaders in their field, but their position is potentially threatened by cheaper Pentium Pro microprocessors. The main competitors in the sector are IBM and Digital Equipment.

He had long dreamed of breaking windows
During his decade as CEO, McNeely's main goals were: first, to prove to the world that computers work better in a network than on their own; second, to shake the dominant position in the industry of the Microsoft-Intel duumvirate. The first idea was already well understood in the mid-eighties by techies and Wall Street brokers who became users of Sun workstations. The general public preferred something cheaper and simpler. Usually this cheaper and simpler clone was the IBM PC clone. In the early nineties, sales and profits of Sun Microsystems began to decline, and some analysts began to predict the sunset of the “sun.” But then the Internet boom began. The number of amateurs who wanted to connect to the world's largest computer network began to grow at a frantic pace. Apparently, it was on them (and on more experienced, but economical users) that McNeely relied on when he supported the Java project.
The essence of the project, which began to be developed at the end of 1990 by engineer Patrick Naughton, is as follows. In the new language, you can write small “applets” programs that can be easily sent over the Internet and used on any type of computer. Programs written in Java can be used on any type of computer and on any operating system. Thus, "platform wars" between computer manufacturers (PC vs. Macintosh) and "operating system wars" between software manufacturers (Windows, UNIX, OS/2 - every man for himself) are rendered potentially meaningless. Microsoft Corp. dominates the market. and Intel Corp. soon they may have to give up their monopoly positions. As McNealy puts it, there must be a "post-Wintel era" (the word is short for Windows and Intel). Sun's goal is to make Java the de facto standard for creating new software and using it on the Internet.
But that's not all. Competing platforms and operating systems, according to McNealy's plan, should leave the scene altogether, clearing the way for new products - special terminals connected to the global network (from Sun, of course), the price of which will be noticeably lower than the price of a PC, which will ensure their superiority in the market. The terminal will not have a disk drive because there is no need for one. All programs will be located on the Internet itself, and the user will be able to get the latest version from there at any time. A huge number of terminals will be controlled by a central Sun supercomputer. Personal computers that are unable to compete with terminals will simply die out.
The plan is ambitious, to say the least. The question is whether consumers will behave as Scott McNeely expects. In the meantime, the license for the new programming language was purchased from Sun 14 largest companies computer business, including IBM, Toshiba, Netscape Communications, Oracle Systems and even Microsoft.

Are apples for sale?
“Have lunch or be lunched,” is Scott McNeely's motto. In recent days in funds mass media More and more often they began to say that Sun wants to dine with nothing less than the veteran computing company Apple Computer Inc.
A report from New York that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Java's official birthday said that Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems had resumed merger talks and that a deal was imminent. The first round of negotiations began in September last year, but were interrupted in early January. Reporters were unable to find out the details of the second round of discussions, except that the merger seemed to be carried out through a swap operation and Apple was valued at $4 billion (about $33 per share). At the same time, it became known that Oracle Corp. is also laying claim to Apple.
However, at the event that took place on the same Tuesday annual meeting Apple CEO Michael Spindler proudly announced to Apple shareholders that his company is not for sale.
When asked about the newspaper article, both Spindler and Apple Chairman Markkula respond with the traditional phrase “no comments.”
Analysts point out that Spindler's statement can be interpreted in two ways: either the Apple-Sun negotiations have failed completely, or the company wants to raise the price. By the way, a similar version of events has already played out once. In 1994, IBM made a bid to acquire Apple for $40 per share, but Spindler asked for $60 and the deal fell through.
What is happening is somewhat symbolic. Apple was once the #1 company, but with the advent of cheaper IBM clones, the mass consumer turned away from its products. Now Sun wants to overthrow the reign of the Intel-based PC with the Windows operating system while joining forces with its former leader. History repeats itself.

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