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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Sources close to the vendor say an intense, high-level debate continues about Sun&#39;s open-source Solaris plans, which were first announced in June.
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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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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Wednesday provided a progress report on their interoperability efforts, touting ongoing cooperation on Web services standardization, deployment of Windows on Sun boxes, and other areas.
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The signs of trouble surrounding Microsoft&#39;s massive Longhorn development project have been building for months. But on Aug. 27 the software giant bowed to the inevitable.
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Ziff Davis - Sun will face trouble creating a developer community around its plans for open-source Solaris for many reasons, say analysts and industry figures.
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Come Monday, Sun will be known by the stock ticker JAVA--but the move isn't well received.
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Microsoft and Sun held a conference call yesterday to update the industry on where they are at in terms of their agreement to work together and interoperate more.
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With its legal jargon, economic analysis and software-speak, yesterday&#39;s court ruling on the European Commission&#39;s antitrust sanctions against Microsoft was not an easy read.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. next month plan to provide more details on the work they are doing to make their products interoperable, a Sun executive said yesterday.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft and Sun Microsystems on Thursday are publishing a specification to leverage Web services for managing a broad range of IT systems including PCs and devices on a network.
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The WS-Management spec is part of the effort to improve Sun-Microsoft system interoperability. But IBM is taking a different road.
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Three years ago, we attended Sun&#39;s quarterly network computing day. It was the heart of the Bust, and we were treated to pot shots directed at IBM and Microsoft and were told that Sun was the true &quot;open standards&quot; vendor.
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Torched by Transitive Technology Forum HP and Novell grabbed hold of their Transitive stick this week and smacked around poor Sun Microsystems.â¦
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There are new movements in the ongoing battle over document formats this week, with Microsoft facing new challenges and Sun Microsystems possibly facing new opportunities.
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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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Sun backs an EU standards push for interoperability between office software. Microsoft says it's already there.