Unless the two are quietly in bed together on the project, Oracle Corp is not going have things all its own way with its Network Computer because Sun Microsystems Inc is pursuing very much the same idea. According to president Scott McNealy, Sun is looking at the possibility of developing a low cost personal communications device: This would be a little flat panel notebook thing with a fast microprocessor. It would be inexpensive, send and receive electronic mail, surf the Internet, download Java applications. It would run applications, one at a time, small simple, usable, like word processing, McNealy said, and repeated Sun’s mantra: The network is the computer.
