Sun, Microsoft Cite Progress, Not Perfection
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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems say they are warming up to each other, but it will take more time to deliver on the grand promises of platform interoperability announced last spring.
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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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It's not perfect yet, but Eclipse marks a new way of developing applications.
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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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Those wondering what this year's surprise cooperation deal between MicrosoftÂ and Sun Microsystems will actually produce should get an update in coming weeks, when the companies detail some of their interoperability work in areas like Web services, directory services, and security.
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InfoWorld - Sun&#160;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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SAN FRANCISCO - As Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. ready an early December unveiling of the first step in their highly publicized technology collaboration, industry observers are questioning whether the former foes will fail to address industry standards, particularly the work being done by the Sun-backed Liberty Alliance consortium.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Datacomm White PaperFind out how Crate & Barrel expects to save $180,000 by moving to VoIP, compared to a traditional PBX.
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InfoWorld - 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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Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, once bitter rivals, are growing ever closer through interoperability agreements that aim to make life easier for their respective customers.
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When Oracle executives in JanuaryÂ publicly described the vendor's Fusion projectÂ to create a new suite of enterprise applications as halfway done, they were referring to the completion of the smaller middleware piece of the massive multibillion dollar project, according to the man in charge of that undertaking. Much work remains to be done on the larger applications piece of Fusion.
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The job of linking products from Sun Microsystems and Microsoft is "more complicated" than envisioned, Sun's CEO says.
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The impending launch of Microsoft's new operating system isn't generating the excitement it once might have. Maybe that's because it, well, gets the job done
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Sun backs an EU standards push for interoperability between office software. Microsoft says it's already there.
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InfoWorld - Is your software vendor doing everything it can to secure its products? As Sun Microsystems&#160;learned this week, there is always room for improvement.
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Former rivals Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have been working together to make their products more compatible -- permitting Windows to run on Sun&#39;s hardware and making StarOffice and Java Runtime Environment compatible with XP SP2.
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Despite some confusion over a recent press release, the next major update for Windows XP is still on track for 2008.
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The OS is chugging along on strong PC sales and antipiracy efforts, but Microsoft still faces some grumbling and a long haul in corporate sales.