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[ale] Sun Java Desktop
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 21:16, Jim Philips wrote:
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> On Wednesday 31 December 2003 06:21 pm, Ronald Chmara wrote:
> > On Dec 31, 2003, at 6:12 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > How does the Java bit fit in, then, if it's just a cut-down SuSE?
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> > The same way "Java" fit into javascript, of course!
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> > Wasn't their some Sun memo, that anything they're tangentially involved
> > in, no matter how unrelated to Java programming, must still continue
> > the java brand?
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> This confirms my earlier suspicion that this thing is mostly a branding ploy
> and offers little new for the users.
Whatever happened to the "Java OS" that Sun was touting a few years
back? Supposed to be an entire, stand-alone operating system
implemented in Java...
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