¶ … battles of the C# and Java wars between Sun and Microsoft. The winner will greatly affect the entire internet which in turn means they are in control of major part of our modern world. The net offers us a plethora of possibilities and opportunities. For example, I know that I can't live without my daily emails, chat and of course I am a big fan of music downloads and bargain shopping. The future of not only information technology is tied to the internet, but business in general as more companies move to the likes of the net for B2B and b2c marketing. The bottom line is that the internet is really comprised of nothing more that physical hardware that runs on intricate software with routers and Local Area Networks (LANs) sprinkled around the world. Basically, the company that grabs a monopoly hold over the rest of the industry can make a whole lot of money. So behind the scenes, there will be constant battles going on between companies like Sun and Microsoft over who has the best programming software, who stole the...

To point out just how critical controlling software rights on the internet are, consider that it is estimated that file swapping sites like KaZaA have more than one hundred sixty million people worldwide downloading at least one version of their software and of those millions, over sixty million people worldwide, twenty-two million in the United States, consider themselves regular and loyal users of the KaZaA software. Now, that is only one website -- census figures such as these create a demand for new and faster software from Microsoft and Sun.
There have been some pretty intense public interchanges between Microsoft and Sun concerning the design of Microsoft's J++ and C# and Sun's Java. For example, "Sun has charged Microsoft with releasing a "polluted" version of…