User Responsible for Purchasing, Installing, Upgrading, Servicing
Each Desktop Configuration!
Data and Applets Provided by the Internet/Network |
Javatized Browser Delivers Data and Applets to Any Type of Desktop |
User Responsible for Just-In-Time Purchasing and Use!
So Why Is Java Important...
"Your computer will never be the same. No longer will the features of
the desktop decide the features of the machine. No longer will the size
of your hard drive or the database in your LAN server determine the
reach of your information processing. No longer will the programs in
your machine determine the functions you can perform. The network is the
computer. The computer becomes a peripheral to the Internet and the
Web."
George Gilder
Forbes Magazine
"This language, and its associated technologies, are not only capable
of solving the Web's current problems, but also create a new platform
that will speed the Internet's already dizzying pace of technological
improvement."
Paul Jones, et. al.
"So Wide a Web, So Little Time"
Educom Review, May/June
The Microsoft Vision...Solutions for a Captive Audience
"We've found people tend to go NT Workstation when they're bringing in
a new machine, which typically means a replacement machine. What that
can mean, of course, is having three platforms: You've got 3.1 on
whatever you haven't touched; you've got Win95 on the systems that you
have touched; and you've got NT on the new systems that you're bringing
in...."
"Everything will be on the NT code base. And you can take that as
an absolute prediction for eight years from now."
Steve Ballmer
Executive Vice President, Sales
Microsoft Corporation
Infoworld Interview
May 27, 1996
Today's Library
- What Libraries Do:
- Search for Data
- Retrieve It
- Manipulate It
- Catalog and Save It
Today's Library Technology Requirements
- Network-Centric
- Distributed Client-Server
- Scalable
- Portable
- Multimedia
- Object-Oriented
- CIO Supported
Academic Library Issues
- Libraries Spend Huge Sums to Disseminate Information
- Students and Faculty Demand Access Outside of the Library
- Academic Libraries Under Budget Constraints
- Desktop OS Costs
- Serials
- Multimedia
- Duplicative Collections
- Long Software and Hardware Life Cycles
- Fit Into Campus Information Technology (IT) Structure
- Faculty and Student Client Needs
Corporate Library Issues
- Information Half-Life
- Optimize Use of Expensive Research Reports
- Training
- Varied, Specialized Clients: Marketing, R&D, Sales, Legal, etc.
- Pay-Per-Use of Selected Unsubscibed Data
Java Benefits to Libraries
- Desktop Platform Independence
- Annual Cost to Maintain a PC in Corporate America is $5000
- Improves Heterogeneous Support
- May Extend Existing Desktop Systems' Lives
- Zero Administration
- Information Management, Control, and Delivery
- Will Lower the Overall Cost of Information Delivery
- Update Your Network Server Once for All Java-enabled Desktops
- Pay As You Use Potential for Users and Researchers
- Will Eventually Reduce Cost and Problems of Desktop Physical Upgrades
- Better Address User Needs
- Provide Text with Live Content on the Web
- Support a Broader User Base with More Diverse Content
- Collaborative Efforts with Faculty or Corporate Marketing
- Academic and Corporate Active Intelligent Agent Searches
- Customer Receives Latest Update: Just-In-Time Information
- Customized Integration of Learning Technologies:
- Audio-Visual
- Simulation
- Video Clips
- Self-Paced Courses
Java Library Reference:
UC Berkeley Digital Library
Geographic Information System (GIS) Data, Photos, and Maps
Joint Project with NSF and State of California
Heterogeneous Hardware Environment - Sun, IBM, HP, DEC
Java Allows User Interface and Transformation of Document Types
- Sophisticated Annotations
- Links Composite Documents
- Multimedia Object Handling
Where is Java Headed?
- APIs for Databases, Multimedia
- Independent Javasoft - Full Course Offerings
- Major Vendors Licensed Including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft
- Java Cup International - 360 Applets Submitted; 19 Winners
- Java Development Kit and Third Party Tools Emerging
- Fifty Schools Now Teaching Java; 200 Expected by Year End
- Java One - 5500 Attendees at Our First Developer Conference
- "Ice Tea" - Networking Middleware for Enterprise Connection
For More Information...
- Java
- http://www.javasoft.sun.com
- http://www.gamelan.com
- Java Cup International
- http://javacontest.sun.com
- Digital Libraries
- http://www.dlib.org/
- UC Berkeley Project
- http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/
- http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/mapview/
- Sun Library Marketing Manager
- art.pasquinelli@corp.sun.com
- Education Sales Manager: China
- kenneth.chu@asia. sun.com