Back in 1987, before the PalmPilot was even a distant glimmer on the horizon, Kaplan, then a computer scientist working for Lotus Corp., foresaw a different type of computer.
And it has remained in widespread use ever since, providing a common standard between different types of computers, without which widespread computer networking would have been unnecessarily difficult.
Instead, brain images are elaborate reconstructions that depend on complex mathematical assumptions that can, as one study earlier this year showed, sometimes yield slightly different results when analyzed on different types of computers.
"Different types of computers," he said, "are a tremendous asset to help students in science and math programs and can also be used to create unique outlines of material".
BEA, based in San Jose, Calif., said it would include Weblogic's software in its own products, which let companies process such transactions as airline reservations over different types of computers in a network.
The Justice Department's plan, outlined in a 17-page filing this afternoon with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, would create two powerful companies, one with the world's dominant operating systems, covering a variety of different types of computers, and one with a wide range of software applications and development tools.
Today, Hewlett-Packard executives reiterated that they were committed to Sun's "write once, run anywhere" philosophy and that it was not their intention to break apart the alliance that Sun created around the concept of software that can run on many different types of computers over the Internet.
