Mr. Maran, who is also the founder of media group Sun TV Network Ltd.
Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.
Large companies invariably have in their data-centres both Sun's fancy network-server computers and also cheaper machines running Windows.
Most people then walk off this delectable repast on a network of sun-dappled trails and wooden walkways, making a bee-line for the waterfalls along the nearby river, Rio Mimoso.
Students work on certification as Unix system administrators, and Sun helps with curriculum design, offers teacher internships and sets up computer labs, says Leslie Bowers, Sun's enterprise network services workforce program manager in Milpitas, Calif.
One of the enduring mysteries of the Solar System is how the ordered network of planets orbiting the Sun spontaneously emerged form the chaos of space.
Sun's N1 (it stands for "Network One") is largely aimed at network management, where it figures 80% of computing budgets go.
The program's goal is to increase the IT hiring pool while seeding the market with Sun-related expertise, says Pat Deagman, Sun's vice president and general manager of enterprise network services in Palo Alto, Calif.
The Sun Ray appliance effectively becomes the end node of the network, and its function is to display pixels on the screen, capture keyboard and mouse clicks, and send them back to the server.
The social network, freshly moved in to the former Sun Microsystems campus near the Dumbarton Bridge on the edge of San Francisco Bay, has begun making plans to add a second campus on the inland side of Bayfront Expressway.
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In 1997, "network computers" were the hot new trend and Sun came out with the Java Station.
Murdoch already owns Britain's biggest daily tabloid newspaper, The Sun, as well as U.S. news television network Fox.
All four of the new systems include full hardware redundancy, redundant storage and network connections and allow for live operating system upgrades, Sun said.
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was twice (at Sun and Novell) beaten up by Microsoft through a robust developer network, and has made it a point to cultivate small developers, and swarm the giants, since he arrived at Google.
Will it be big, stand-alone (mostly) boxes by EMC, pure networking schemes like Network Appliance or hybrids from the new Hitachi Data Systems and Sun alliance?
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.
The first is that the solar-as-social-network concept is as real and dependable as, well, the Sun rising in the East.
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The six big producers of network servers -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Digital and Dell -- have caught on to the advantages, and Quantum is struggling to meet their demand.
He was chief scientist at Sun Microsystems and head of Novell, both of which were crushed by Microsoft's dominant network of Windows developers.
If either Oracle or Sun had truly understood what it was they were trying to provide when they ventured out with the network computer concept, we might already be dealing with a whole different desktop experience -- and a new set of vendors to provide it.
For the network, computers and software, it has relied on western firms like Netscape, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
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