Sun has not indicated a timetable for releasing improved versions of the suite.
The result is improved versions of products like Google Maps and Google Earth.
In the last 18 months, Microsoft and Apple introduced greatly improved versions of their browsers, Internet Explorer and Safari.
Applied Molecular Evolution, which is based in San Diego, uses proprietary technology to develop improved versions of currently marketed medicines and new drugs.
By then robots should be skilled enough to design and build automated factories that manufacture improved versions of themselves, he predicted.
Several poor nations are trying to develop improved versions of local crops, but these efforts have been crippled by the biotech companies' control over the technology.
That's because the universe is really a multiverse and people have new if not necessarily improved versions of themselves in parallel worlds.
As they take over more and more of the off-field management of their husbands' lives, they become "newer and improved versions of the controlling stage mother".
It is now growing by using the tactics of bigger drug companies -- introducing improved versions of its drugs and buying another company, in its case Immunex.
He wrote improved versions of his software, up to Music V, which he created "to give the musician the tools to make his own instruments".
Maxygen is developing improved versions of proteins that are already being sold as drugs by other companies, posing a potential threat to other biotechnology companies.
