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Are You Serious? (Sun Partnering with Microsoft)

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 6 comments
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Last week, we signed a deal with Microsoft. Remain calm. The good news is everyone paid attention. The bad news is it spawned a lot of questions - which I thought I'd answer here. The announcement was this: Microsoft will be supporting Project Virginia, Sun's soon-to-be-announced hypervisor platform - meaning we can consolidate and manage Windows (alongside Linux and Solaris). Secondly, Sun will support Windows virtualization - allowing Windows to do the same for Solaris. And finally, Sun agreed to package and support (or 'OEM') Windows for customers and partners that want to buy direct from Sun.

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Comments (6)

rijelkentaurus ·
Quoting: Second, Sun will OEM and support the Windows platform. We'll be bundling our Java runtime environment, our tool chain, and our Java Enterprise System middleware (and the OpenOffice suite for good measure) in the Windows we distribute.


How did the bundling of Windows and OpenOffice escape the Redmond Beast?

Cool.
jezuch ·
Sun knows how to talk to Microsoft, apparently.
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Quoting:Sun knows how to talk to^H^Hdown Microsoft, apparently.


There. Fixed.
tracyanne ·
It looks broken to me.
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Yeah well <strike> doesn't work here, so I had to use old-fashioned escape codes. ( ^H being backspace, ^W erase last word, etcetera)

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