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Source: Lennart Gahm (plgnet@ibm.net)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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JAVA scores
The European standardization-organization, DVB 
(Digital Video Broadcasting) has elected JAVA as 
standard for EU:s digital-TV. It's about 150 million 
households in EU, with TV. The market it opens for 
is etimated to billions per year.

JAVA will be used for developing the software. It 
means all sorts of services, e-mail, web, 
TV-commercials, bank services and e-commerse.
DVB has decided that JAVA will be the 
program-platform and a new DVB JAVA-platform will be 
developed. The purpose is to adapt Sun's Personal 
JAVA for Europe's digital TV standard. This is for 
signals, payment-TV systems and task like chose 
channels. The new standard is supposed to be ready 
in 1999, with JAVA-enabled products on the market in 
2000.

DVB has over 200 organizations in home-electronics, 
TV-stations, net operators and so on.

Personal note:
Any company who has committed to 100%-pure JAVA will 
probably benefit from this, like IBM who put JAVA in 
all their operating systems. Innoval has a really 
good opportunity with JStreetMailer on the digital 
TV market.

Developers who want to make applications for this 
market have an excellent, inexpensive platform in 
X86, OS/2 and VisualAge for JAVA. 

OS/2 will soon have JAVA 1.1.7, the beta of 1.1.7 
has been benchmarket to one of the fastest on X86. A 
new VisualAge is about to be released, NetScape 
Communicator probably at the end of the month. 

More about OS/2, A new release of WSOD and something 
new called Orion will be released 27-28 October 
(worldwide) and of course Aurora early next year. 
Something called "Aurora ClientPak" seems also to be 
under development.

Sun and IBM is also working on JAVA-OS.
Personally, as a European soon surrounded by JAVA, 
I will start taking courses in JAVA-programming and 
upgrade my VisualAge/2 for JAVA.

Lennart Gahm plgnet@ibm.net
Swedish OS/2 User Group http://www.os2ug.se
PS, we welcome everyone visiting Stockholm 25 
September to our conference about YEAR 2000, OS/2 feature, 
WSOD/ORION, JAVA and our special guest, Dan Porter Innoval. 

See our Agenda, 
English: 
http://www.os2ug.se/konferens_980925/index2.html
Swedish: 
http://www.os2ug.se/konferens_980925/index.html



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