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: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use
Hmmm, next month: Java and .Net become the same.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/04
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They are already
Roger Ramjet | 11/29/04
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Oops, except for Mono
NonZealot | 11/29/04
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Tired
Philip Stears | 12/02/04
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Stop Hiding And Answer The Postings On The Microsoft 80,000 System Crashes
itanalyst | 11/29/04
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Are you infatuated with No_Axe?
NonZealot | 11/29/04
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That's funny!
rapson | 11/30/04
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maybe
JasonL31 | 11/30/04
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MS will Teach Marketing, Sun will Teach Coding
brenthawkinsmd | 11/29/04
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The conflict between MCPP and Open Source
David Mohring | 11/29/04
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Not surprising
rapson | 11/29/04
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Section 6. CONFIDENTIALITY - Non-disclosure terms Vs Open Source
David Mohring | 11/29/04
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I aagree, open source is going to be left wanting.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/29/04
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Antitrust and Oligopoly:Exclusion deals between Monopoly and other vendors
David Mohring | 11/29/04
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you have so little faith in ms
JasonL31 | 11/30/04
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How the mighty have fallen.
alterego_z | 11/29/04
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