All in a name

28 November 1998

Sun Microsystems has won a battle with Microsoft over the future of the Java
programming language. A US district judge in San Jose, California, has ruled
that Microsoft must comply with the standards set by Sun if it wants to use the
Java name.

The decision could prevent the fragmentation of the Java language, which has
been designed to work on any computer platform. Microsoft has been trying to
create a version of Java that would only work well with its Windows operating