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...APPLE? THAT WAS the loudest buzz question in Silicon Valley last week, as insiders tried to guess the outcome of talks over the possible merger of two icons of the digital revolution. Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, two vastly different companies, were haggling over the buyout of Apple even as an Apple executive insisted that their company was "not for sale." But it was. Last Tuesday, Sun was said to be offering $33 a share, about the price at which Apple is trading on the stock market, or roughly $4 billion. By Thursday, Sun was reportedly offering $23 a share...
MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN BILL GATES hates it. So does Intel president Andy Grove and virtually every other chief executive in Silicon Valley. In Washington the representatives of America's vaunted high-tech industries hate it too. Phyllis Eisen, senior policy director of the 14,000-member National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the country's most powerful business lobbies, decries it as "insane...
...programmers, who are always on the lookout for what they call a "new platform" on which to write new, hot-selling software. The virtual Java machine represents, as Sun co-founder Bill Joy puts it, "the lightest-weight platform we've ever had"--made not of metal, plastic and silicon but of a few thousand lines of code...
Programmers who find the market for Windows software increasingly crowded and unprofitable see fresh opportunities to make their mark in Java. "The geeks are buzzed," says Dave Winer, a Silicon Valley-based programmer and self-described geek. "It's like a whole world just opened...
That battle came to a head the first week in December, when Sun and Microsoft staged competing press conferences. Sun went first, announcing a long list of companies that had agreed to endorse Java, including IBM, Apple, DEC, Adobe, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Toshiba. Everybody expected Microsoft to strike back, reaffirming its commitment to its own Java-like Visual Basic. But at the last minute, Gates changed his mind, announcing that he too would license Java, while also promising somewhat menacingly to "extend...