The two companies have scheduled a teleconference to give a "progress report" on their landmark pact and define some of the parameters of the collaborative work, according to a Microsoft representative. Sun Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos and a Microsoft vice president plan to host the teleconference.
Announced in April, the wide-reaching deal called for the two long-time adversaries to settle their ongoing legal disputes and share technology in order to improve interoperability between their respective products. The deal involved payments of up to $1.95 billion to Sun.
As part of the deal, Sun withdrew from antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft. The two companies also created a patent-sharing arrangement, under which Sun and Microsoft pledged not to sue each other over patents. Despite the partnership, Sun and Microsoft executives vowed to continue competing aggressively.
When the deal was first announced, the companies provided few details on the nature of their technical collaboration, singling out network sign-on capabilities and Web services as two areas of potential work.
Since the deal's signing, the bulk of the collaboration has been on interoperability between Sun's Solaris operating system and Microsoft's Windows OS and on interoperability of Web services, said one Sun executive.
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- This sort of bigotted mantra is becoming more and more tiresome, Java and the .NET Framework may share a similar structure but they are anything but the same.
For a start, not only is .NET mult... (Read the rest) - Posted by: Philip Stears Posted on: 12/02/04 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
 Hmmm, next month: Java and .Net become the same. No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/04 |
 They are already Roger Ramjet | 11/29/04 |
| Oops, except for Mono NonZealot | 11/29/04 |
 Tired Philip Stears | 12/02/04 |
| Stop Hiding And Answer The Postings On The Microsoft 80,000 System Crashes itanalyst | 11/29/04 |
| Are you infatuated with No_Axe? NonZealot | 11/29/04 |
 That's funny! rapson | 11/30/04 |
| maybe JasonL31 | 11/30/04 |
| MS will Teach Marketing, Sun will Teach Coding brenthawkinsmd | 11/29/04 |
| The conflict between MCPP and Open Source David Mohring | 11/29/04 |
| Not surprising rapson | 11/29/04 |
| Section 6. CONFIDENTIALITY - Non-disclosure terms Vs Open Source David Mohring | 11/29/04 |
| I aagree, open source is going to be left wanting. No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/04 |
| Antitrust and Oligopoly:Exclusion deals between Monopoly and other vendors David Mohring | 11/29/04 |
| you have so little faith in ms JasonL31 | 11/30/04 |
| How the mighty have fallen. alterego_z | 11/29/04 |
