Microsoft and Sun&#39;s difficult dance
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com December 2, 2004, 12:29 PM PT. This priority jumped up two spots into second place as CRM returns into the spotlight among top software initiatives alongside directory services and open source.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. next month plan to provide more details on work they are doing to make their products interoperable, a Sun executive said Monday.
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In the second of a two-part review of 2004, World Business Report looks back on a year which saw Microsoft challenge a $600m EU fine and make peace with its long-time rival, Sun Microsystems.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are poised to flesh out the details of the historic truce they signed earlier this year, ending years of bitter sniping between the two technology giants.
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DECEMBER 06, 2004  - The progress report that Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. issued last week on their joint initiatives left some IT managers and analysts wondering when or if the
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Taking an intentionally cautious tone, Microsoft and Sun executives said Wednesday that the first eight months of their 10-year partnership have yielded small, but significant progress.
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There are more signs that, at least in theory, the dominance of Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows operating system may be slightly less potent than, say, a year ago this time.
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After years of battling Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. has set its sights on Linux vendors, seeking to jump into a low-end but high-volume market it's been accused of ignoring.
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A RED HAT vice president has slammed Sun for refusing to open source its Java code and hanging on like grim death to its patents. The bone of contention is the April agreement between Sun and Microsoft.
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As open source becomes pervasive, software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun are adapting in different ways.
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Microsoft and Sun have declared some progress in their efforts to achieve interoperability citing co-operation on web services standardisation and deployment of Windows on Sun systems.
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There are new movements in the ongoing war over document formats this week, with Microsoft facing new challenges and Sun Microsystems possibly facing new opportunities.
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Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) may have saved itself from years of costly litigation when it settled with Microsoft over their long-running Java dispute, but a clause in the landmark deal has open source supporters parsing its potential impact.
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Jaded souls might say that Sun Microsystems sold the open source community down the river in its landmark settlement with Microsoft in April.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS.
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&quot;Sun is in this big battle with Microsoft for enterprise commitments,&quot; Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with the research firm Illuminata, told the E-Commerce Times.
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Perens said the legal arrangement between Sun and Microsoft was &quot;creepy.&quot; The agreement, he added, &quot;essentially says that Sun will not stand together with the open source developers who contributed