Sun Microsystems, the company whose former CEO used to denounce Microsoft as often — and as sarcastically — as possible, is now selling Windows. The Santa Clara, Calif., IT pioneer has “signed on” to become a Windows Server original equipment manufacturer, meaning it will install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in its hardware running on x64, 64-bit architecture. Additionally, Microsoft and Sun jointly said they will collaborate “to further enable deployment of Windows Server on Sun x64 systems” and to work jointly on virtualization technologies that support interoperability of their products.
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Sun, Microsoft Forge IT Detente
Posted by: Fred J. Aun September 13, 2007 10:48 AMSun Microsystems, the company whose former CEO used to denounce Microsoft as often — and as sarcastically — as possible, is now selling Windows. The Santa Clara, Calif., IT pioneer has “signed on” to become a Windows Server original equipment manufacturer, meaning it will install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in its hardware running on x64, 64-bit architecture. Additionally, Microsoft and Sun jointly said they will collaborate “to further enable deployment of Windows Server on Sun x64 systems” and to work jointly on virtualization technologies that support interoperability of their products.