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.

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China is a market in which Sun Hung Kai now has moderate exposure and has had a modicum of success.

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And, in 2004, black audiences had a crucial role in making a success of the limited-run revival of "A Raisin in the Sun, " starring Sean Combs.

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So the desire for success in the high-stakes consumer market will drive many companies like Microsoft, Sun and Cisco into a plug-and-play business model.

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Now he faces open revolt from journalists on the Sun, the paper which laid the foundations of his media empire with its "soaraway" success in the 1970s.

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