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killers  Jul 12, 2000, 18:24 (24 Talkback[s]) (Other stories by
Nancy Daniels)  By Nancy Daniel, VNU Net  As Sun Microsystems
celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Java programming
language last month, Microsoft was busy cranking up its
marketing machine to promote a growing armoury of potential Java
killers.  The Redmond giant's anti-Java sentiments spring at
least in part from the hardware vendor's decision to sue it in
October 1997. Sun claimed that Microsoft was in violation of its
Java licensing contract and had infringed copyright by
developing a Windows-only version of the technology. The case is
still pending.  This week, however, Microsoft upped the ante
against Sun by ending its investment in Java. It will build no
future versions of its Visual J++ Java-based development tool
and instead will resell Rational's equi