The three most important tech industry events in 1998

The official birth of Sun-Oracle-AOL-Netscape Java syndicate. It plans to provide a wide range of customer services from home set-top boxes to Internet/Intranet data warehouse.   Transmeta made steps to design the next-next-generation processor. It should scale to wide range of computers from cheap desktops to super-stations.   The world-wide acceptance of Linux operating system as one of the most powerful and reliable Enterprise solutions. Officially shipment grew 212%, market share increased 153%. Unofficially - much more.