Looking to capitalise on the runaway success of its Netra i Internet servers, Sun Microsystems Inc is developing an additional bundle of Internet applications and services, which it plans to supply as a CD-ROM upgrade to the initial release. It is not saying exactly what will be featured, but presumably it will include the new 1.2 release of CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd’s FireWall-1 security system, and a new browser. HotJava, the prototype World Wide Web browser and HyperText Markup Language development system now appearing on the company’s World Wide Web page, will not be in there and is not expected to feature as a Netra i application until later in the year. HotJava is based on Sun’s Java object-oriented network application development language, which hails from the company’s Sun Labs. Americans understand Java as a generic term for any coffee: it is a brand that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Meantime, Sun is now shipping volume quantities of the system management server confi guration of Netra, which is supplied with the Netra s bundle of configuration and administration tools for managing personal computer networks.
