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Sun's McNealy Boosts Java R&D in the Far East

"Korea Is Like Silicon Valley," He Says As He Opens Java Research Center In Seoul
By Java News Desk
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April 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
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"Just like Silicon Valley, Korea is where to go if you want to see the real potential of a fully networked society," said Scott McNealy yesterday in a speech at the opening ceremony of Sun's first research and development center in Asia, located in Seoul, the South Korean capital.

The South Korean Yonhap News Agency is reporting that McNealy, who was in Seoul to open the center, said: "Korea has an extremely talented IT workforce, and that's why we will continue to have a strong presence in Korea moving forward."

More than two-thirds of South Korea's 15 million homes have high-speed Internet connections and as of March 2005 there are 37.1 million mobile phone subscribers in the country - out of a population of 48 million.

Sun plans to spend a total of 50 million US dollars over the next four years to fund the lab's development activities, the agency reported. South Korean Information and Communication Minister Chin Dae-je was also in attendance and said that Sun's Java technology is considered to be essential by South Korean because of its tremendous expected impact on the further development of mobile and embedded software.

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