Other cable companies like Cablevision and Time Warner have also inked deals with Sun for using Java OS. Sun's rivals include Microsoft's Windows CE, OpenTV, and Power TV from Scientific Atlanta.
Sun championed Java as a way to challenge the ubiquity of the Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) Windows operating system.
Mr. Page said during testimony Wednesday that Google struggled to reach an agreement with Sun over Google's use of Java before Sun was acquired by Oracle.
By comparison, Sun's Java 2 software has had more than 3 million downloads.
In the fall of 1998, Whyte issued an injunction ordering Microsoft to make its products compatible with Sun's Java specifications.
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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.
The devices will run on Sun's Java-based operating system and will boost demand for the company's big servers, which already power some of the most popular websites.
They also must be able to run over a number of different operating systems, such as Qualcomm 's Brew, Sun Microsystems' Java and Microsoft 's Windows Mobile.
"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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Sun Microsystems invented the Java language and started a mass exodus of computer programming talent away from Microsoft toward Sun.
With today's settlement, Microsoft basically drops Java, although it will be allowed to use Sun's version of Java in its software for seven years so that it can continue to support software developers who have already written Java software for Windows.
Ms Polese used to be in charge of marketing Sun Micro systems' Java software project.
Digital is hosting a pavilion for Internet innovators and Sun Microsystems sponsors a Java Pavilion for developers of its programming language.
But Microsoft had identified others, including Sun Microsystems's Java technologies, Intel's Native Signal Processing, and multimedia playback software developed by Apple and RealNetworks.
In 1997, "network computers" were the hot new trend and Sun came out with the Java Station.
Sun's landmark October 1997 lawsuit charged Microsoft with copyright infringement and breach of contract for failing to maintain compatibility with Sun's version of Java.
James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.
It is easy to see why Oracle, Netscape and Sun are together promoting the Java language, since the success of the network computer would create a bigger market for all three.
On Tuesday, Sun (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
For example, Sun Microsystems traded under the symbol JAVA, one of its chief software programs.
Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) has taken the second approach.
Oracle, which acquired Java when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010, has not yet issued a security patch for this particular vulnerability.
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Oracle obtained Java when it purchased Sun Microsystems in early 2010.
To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
By acquiring companies like Diba and Chorus Systems, Sun is making sure that its Java OS for Consumers is ready to be deployed in all sorts of consumer devices, which can be plugged into Sun-specific infrastructure.
An editorial in The Wall Street Journal Tuesday aimed to sully the reputation and even the motives of Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) who is now a billionaire venture capitalist and leader in the biofuels arena.
Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.
Also significant, company officials said, is that the 12-way processor Sun Fire 4800 reached 60, 000 operations per second running the SpecJBB Java Application Tier, while the 24-way processor Sun Fire 6800 reached 109, 000 operations per second.
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