Microsoft and Sun agree to support each other in virtualized environments
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| Microsoft also announced on September 12 that it’s building an
| interoperability center with Novell in Cambridge, Mass.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=712
Like Novell, they seem to be thinking that a pact with the devil, so to speak,
will somehow help their bottom line.
Note to Sun: Show Us Value, Not Tricks
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| Schwartz eliminated 4,000 jobs and took a weed-whacker to Sun's sprawling
| research division, refocusing it on work that is likely to lead to new
| products.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59286.html
Related:
Morton: no merging of OpenSolaris with Linux
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| Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux
| kernel, said a top Linux maintainer.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1295
Sun Microsystems to reduce work force
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| Sun has been aggressively cutting costs since Jonathan Schwartz took over as
| chief executive in April 2006 from co-founder Scott McNealy.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/ap_on_hi_te/sun_microsystems_job_cuts
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
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