After signing similar deals with Dell and Hewlett-Packard earlier this year, Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday that several other PC makers will begin shipping machines loaded with its Java software. The distribution agreements with Acer, Gateway, Samsung, Toshiba and Tsinghua Tongfang are designed to help Sun circumvent rival Microsoft's unwillingness to supply the PC market with Java, a programming language and its supporting software. While Microsoft's Windows remains the dominant operating system in PCs today, it is thought that the presence of Java in more computers will reduce the importance of Windows as a foundation for other programs. Microsoft has been fighting to remove the technology from Windows XP.
Sun estimates that the new PC distribution deals will help push the latest version of Java to more than 50 percent of desktop PCs. "These leading PC vendors are listening to their customers, who want easy access to high-performing, industry-standard Java technology," Richard Green, vice president of Sun's Software Developer Platforms Group, said in a statement. "These agreements encompass some of the best-known brands in PC computing and point to the tremendous value of the Java platform as a must-have for the modern computing desktop."
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Sun estimates that the new PC distribution deals will help push the latest version of Java to more than 50 percent of desktop PCs. "These leading PC vendors are listening to their customers, who want easy access to high-performing, industry-standard Java technology," Richard Green, vice president of Sun's Software Developer Platforms Group, said in a statement. "These agreements encompass some of the best-known brands in PC computing and point to the tremendous value of the Java platform as a must-have for the modern computing desktop."
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BizTalk Accelerator for Financial Services 1.0 SR1 MessagePack 2003 has implemented the final 2003 SWIFT Standards Release Guide (SRG) and Message Format Validation Rules (MFVR). Legacy messages that have been removed from SRG 2003 by SWIFT but are still supported in this MessagePack will conform to the most recent SRG in which they were still included (prior to SRG 2003).
BizTalk Accelerator for Financial Services 1.0 SR1 MessagePack 2003 is a patch to BizTalk Accelerator for Financial Services 1.0 SR1 and is not a standalone product. Therefore, once installed, product support for the MessagePack 2003 will be covered by existing BizTalk Accelerator for Financial Services 1.0 SR1 support agreement(s).
These agreements encompass some of the best-known brands in PC computing
lol! Yeah, right, best-known for sucking, tho Samsung flat panels are nice.
Go Sun, Go! Give MS some competition. I get better tools to work with as a result from both sides.
i'd actually prefer not to have any VM installed, becuase i don't use java. those who do know where to get it, so why install it?
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