FRAMINGHAM (11-20-95) - IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. remained coy last week about whether IBM will sign a license to use Sun's Java programming language. Java was designed to let users download programs and run them on a wide variety of machines, and it seems like a perfect fit for IBM's dreams of Internet-centric computing. A Sun source says an IBM Java license is already in the works, though it hasn't been signed yet. But IBM spokesmen insist that Java is only one among many interesting technologies under the Big Blue gaze.
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