Sun's new horizon

Sun Microsystems released new versions of its UltraSparc II and integrated UltraSparc IIi chips, and vendors are expected to follow with new Unix-based workstations. The new chips are the first steps in an ambitious roadmap designed to keep the company in the vanguard of 64-bit chip development. Separately, the company said it will port the latest version of its Java Developer's Kit to Linux, even while Sun and Hewlett-Packard battle over control of how time-critical commands are handled by devices running Java programs.

Dawn of a new chip era for Sun lead story New UltraSparc processors, which will lead to new workstations, are part of Sun's ambitious road map for the future. Sun shines on Linux Linux gets another boost as Sun announces that it is porting the latest version of its JDK to the open source code operating system. HP, Sun continue Java feud This time, the fight is over the process for determining a specification that would govern how commands are handled by devices running Java.