Take one radical idea: Jini, the latest software brainchild of Sun Microsystems' cofounder, Bill Joy.
Jini also allows your little PalmPilot to draw unused processing power from a supercomputer.
Raduchel: The true description of Jini is a spontaneous network with sets of Java programs.
That's joyful news from Bill Joy, the Sun guru whom McNealy credits with bringing Jini to fruition.
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Anyone can download the Java and Jini source codes, thus becoming a member of the club of developers.
Kinko's will install a Jini network that allows a document at one shop to be printed at any other.
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Thirty-seven major companies have signed on to put Jini chips in their appliances.
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Consumers will never know about Jini, all they'll see will be the logo.
Sun wants Jini magic to work with TVs, home appliances, cell phones and automobiles as well as PCs and printers.
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Out of Java, Mr Joy has now spawned a related technology, Jini.
As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
Java and Jini will be in everything, but that doesn't mean that the user will ever know, 90 percent of them will never know.
Sun's Jini OS project aims to simplify the integration of Java-enabled devices by allowing the devices to automatically send small applets to each other.
Sun will contribute Java and a related technology called Jini that allows mobile computing devices to set up communications channels with other networked appliances and servers.
Jini, the work of Bill Joy, a Sun co-founder and one of the fathers of Java, promises to allow computing appliances to connect instantly into a universal network.
Jini networks are self-healing, they never establish a permanent connection.
Jini will first appear in office machines like printers and scanners with the program automatically helping each to understand commands from the other, without first being told by a computer what to do.
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