Computing: Jini out of the bottle.(Sun Microsystems Inc. introduces Jini software technology )(software technology )(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, January, 1999
SAN FRANCISCO
IF YOU believe some people in the computing industry, the biggest threat to Microsoft comes not from the Justice Department but from Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. Mr Joy was the inspiration behind Jini (pronounced "genie"), a new software technology that Sun will unveil with much fanfare on January 25th. If Jini takes off it will turn upside down the way computers work, at Microsoft's expense (although the threat is still a distant one: the software giant announced a 75% profit increase this week).
Mr Joy started from the premise that today's operating systems are hopelessly complex pieces of "bloatware", and therefore a technological dead-end. It is a nightmare, for example, to debug the next version of Windows NT,...
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