The New Digital Galaxy

摘要

Gleaming black boxes aren't necessarily out of place at Silicon Valley product introductions. But this particular onstage presence was a surprising visitor at the unveiling of Sun Microsystems' software glue for the next century's computing devices. Executives from IBM, Philips, Sony and 3Com all were boasting how their futuristic devices would use Sun's Jim codes to transform our workaday world into something like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Then came a clean-cut European executive to explain the shiny black cube. It was loaded with "revolutionary" software, he said, and it had, of course, an Internet connection. The man was from Bosch. The box was a dishwasher.