Palo Alto, CA - January 23, 1996 - JavaSoft, the newly-formed operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that the Java™ 1.0 programming environment is now available for download at http://java.sun.com. Java s write-once-run-everywhere capability along with its easy accessibility have propelled the software and Internet communities to embrace it as the de facto standard for writing applications for complex networks, said Alan Baratz, JavaSoft s newly appointed president. We re delighted to invite developers to download Java 1.0 immediately and start building the next killer application. Improving Java to create this strong 1.0 general release has been a great achievement for our team, said Ruth Hennigar, general manager of Java language and applications, JavaSoft. Since our first alpha release to the web in March we have received a lot of developer feedback and have improved functionality and reliability. This release incorporates the components that sof