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BouncingAyatollah

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UK Govt. back Sun Java Desktop
« on: 8 December 2003, 20:29 »
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405988,00.asp

"Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a strategic five-year agreement with the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce to establish the Java Enterprise System and the Java Desktop System as the underlying infrastructure and desktop solutions for the public sector."
The cheese would have to be subatomic size before quantum cheese effects would take over -- and then it wouldn't be identifiable as cheese any longer.

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« Reply #1 on: 9 December 2003, 10:27 »
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Originally posted by BouncingAyatollah:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405988,00.asp

"Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a strategic five-year agreement with the United Kingdom's Office of Government Commerce to establish the Java Enterprise System and the Java Desktop System as the underlying infrastructure and desktop solutions for the public sector."




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« Reply #2 on: 10 December 2003, 01:06 »
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« Reply #3 on: 10 December 2003, 01:15 »
Looks pretty cool, and it got StarOffice (duh...) and Gaim. It's user friendly enough, certainly for the workplace (they could have gone rid of Gaim though, that's just distraction   ).

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