Several big deals near for Sun's Java language

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Sun Microsystems is planning to announce several new deals to license its Java programming language with consumer electronics manufacturers. The company will introduce a pact with Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson that would license Java for use in cellular telephones, according to insiders. A separate licensing deal with Sony is close to completion, a well-connected industry insider said. Sun also is nearing a cooperative agreement with IBM in which both companies will develop a Java OS for a range of consumer and embedded applications. Sun plans to unveil the Ericsson deal and outline its consumer electronics plans today at its Java One industry conference in San Francisco, which the company expects to draw 14,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors. These moves represent the first efforts to make Java widely available for consumer devices other than computers, and industry analysts that it probably will make it more difficult for rival Microsoft to divide Sun's Java business.

Prepackaged software, Telecommunications, Telephone Communication, Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, Electronics, Electronic Components and Accessories, Computer software industry, Software industry, Product development, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Consumer electronics industry, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Contracts, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, Licensing agreements, Sony Corp., Company licensing agreement, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Operating system enhancements, Java (Programming language), Cooperative agreement for product development, Alliances and partnerships, Java (Computer program language), Java

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In AT&T-TCI deal, cost and logistical problems

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The $31.8 billion merger between AT&T and Tele-Cummunications Inc. (TCI) will initialy cost about $750 per customer. The cost could drop as low as $200 per customer sometime after 2000. TCI will spend $1.8 billion to upgrade its one-way cable network to a two-way service capable of carrying digital video and sound. AT&T will then need to persuade customers to buy advanced set-top boxes that have connectors for video, computer and telephone. The customer will also have to install, at its own expense, a new generation of advanced Internet routers capable of clear voice quality.

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Cost and logistical problems in merger with TCI

United States, Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, Financial management, Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Telephone Communications, AT&T Corp., Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable television, Telephone services, AT&T Broadband and Internet Services Inc., Article

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