Then it teams up with IBM to get the operating system designed. JavaOS for Business was announced a few weeks ago at JavaOne, and is intended to be a standard implementation of JavaOS optimised for NCs, so effectively Intel's deal with IBM is cutting it into what is being proposed as a new industry platform, and marks another stage in the company's long march from not being terribly enthusiastic about NCs in the first place. IBM says it intends to ship Intel-based NCs late this year or early next, and that Lotus is developing applications, but then Lotus has been developing applications for NCs for some time, and is the productivity software Great White Hope for the NC community, heaven help it. But note that Intel has fingers in other pies, not to mention eyes, via the NCD deal. The company will also, if it sticks to schedule beat IBM to market.
Prototypes are due any time now, and volume in the second half.
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