On Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that they had successfully recruited Dr. Thomas Lee to serve as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Office.

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At Sun Microsystems, the technology clearly takes priority.

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Microsoft has countered Adobe's AIR and Flex technologies with its own development tools called Live Mesh and Silverlight. (Sun Microsystems in May launched similar technology called JavaFX, and Google has a tool out called Gears.) Microsoft has 4 million software developers already using its .

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