Short Take: Sun's technology builds China's Net backbone

Sun Microsystems announced that China Internet (CIC) chose its technology to build the country's Internet backbone. The Daily Spectrum, an industry newsletter, reported CIC will purchase $15 million worth of Sun computers, equipment, and interactive network computing technology for its Chinese Internet-intranet network. According to Sun, CIC was developed in order to employ the latest Internet technology to create a reliable and secure national intranet, the China Wide Web.