Sun To Sell Java Desktops via Wal-Mart Site

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Sun says it has finalized its agreement with Microtel Computer Systems to sell machines loaded with Sun's Java Desktop System on Walmart.com. And Sun is confident that its JDS version 2.0 will be another nibble toward its goal of taking a big bite out of Microsoft's Windows dominance.

Sun announced that Microtel computers are available for sale -- from US$298 to $698 -- with the option to load JDS. Microtel, which is based in the Los Angeles metro area, makes a range of computers from laptops to servers. The component options of the JDS-installed build-to-order PCs include AMD or Intel processors running from 1.6 to 3 GHz, and a variety of choices in such categories as motherboard, hard drive and so on.

Sun says its desktop business could take a significant portion of Microsoft's share of the market. Though the Linux-based system Sun has crafted around its Star Office tools has garnered some praise, many long-time observers of the desktop OS market maintain that price and usability are not enough to pry Windows users away from their legacy installs.

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#1 Hills420 on 23 Apr 2004 - 02:36

Has anyone tried this new Java OS? Is it prime-time or what?

(1 reply) #2 Skyfrog on 23 Apr 2004 - 02:40

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Sun says its desktop business could take a significant portion of Microsoft's share of the market.

Right, and little green aliens could bring me a plate of brownies tonight, but I don't look for it to happen. Anyone that buys a computer at Wal-Mart is going to want something to run their Windows games and software on, as well as something they probably know how to use already. I wish them luck with it though, any competition is a welcome thing.

#2.1 gawdflesh on 23 Apr 2004 - 05:05

Might help their efforts a tad if Wal-Mart would actually sell Linux software and games. As is, people are just going to probably get pissed off when they realize they can't buy compatible software from the same store that they bought their computer.

Besides...people buying computers at Wal-Mart...I don't think there's a Linux version of Deer Hunter 3D, is there?

(1 reply) #3 sputnik on 23 Apr 2004 - 06:21

i have seen sun java desktop branded pcs. THEY ARE FUGLY and lame. i would not use one even if it was given to me for free

#3.1 ishtar on 23 Apr 2004 - 10:27

You dweeb its not for gaming anyhow it more for business and industrial use. I haven't seen too many old farts playing games their always checking their stocks.

(1 reply) #4 sputnik on 23 Apr 2004 - 06:22

#4.1 neufuse on 23 Apr 2004 - 11:29

they've been saying that for ever... and apparently SPARC servers were supose to take over x86 shares also according to them...

#5 eilegz on 23 Apr 2004 - 15:31

i dunno why people is bashing at sun i mean when they use to sue microsoft people says like sun its not doing nothing more than sue to get $ now that they r doing something new people dun give a chance i tried the new java desktop and its a good OS and yeah its for works LOL if u want something more like for home then get lindows -.-¿

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