Oracle, with a relative lock on its customer base and a tight management of its Sun hardware acquisition, is off 0.11%.

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"Between Sun, AOL, and Netscape, we have a broad base of great technology and products, and we are working to integratethem into one middleware suite, " said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software Division, in a press conference followingthe NetDynamics announcement.

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Last year, scientists using a technique called helioseismology, probed the Sun's interior, revealing that currents of gas at the base of the convective zone change velocity every 16 months.

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Hidden in a hangar at the US Navy's Patuxent River Air Base, in Maryland, away from prying eyes and shaded from the intense sun, US and British ground crew made the final preparations before the plane took to the clear blue skies.

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Because geothermal produces consistent, base-load power--it doesn't depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining--utilities will pay up to three times more for geothermal electricity than for electricity from an intermittent source, like wind.

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Sun Microsystems' write-once-run-anywhere programming language is expected to grow from an installed base of 3.8 million digital cable boxes in 1998 to 12 million boxes by year 2001, according to International Data Corp. (IDC), a Framingham, Mass.

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