http://blogs.msdn.com/eec/archive/2005/03/03/384874.aspxewwwwwwww
That's quite a sad story actually. However, the article doesn't explain much to me about what kind of cooperation there is between the two companies.
There will be a total and complete agreement with Sun to sponsor Microsoft products in the forseeable future.
What the fuck? All we said was that we'd SETTLE. We don't remember agreeing to be Microsoft's lapdog, nor will we so long as Steve Ballmer is interim CEO.
even if you're renting you've got more rights than if you're using windows.
I know a lot of you think this is kind of here, he and I are up here. Most people don't realize that actually Steve and I went to high school at crosstown high schools in Michigan. We went to Harvard together. We actually were at the Stanford Business School at the same time. And now we've been actually pretty good friends for a long, long period of time. We've had, you know, some rocky moments -- (laughter) -- I don't know, was it something I said, Steve? (Laughter.)But, anyhow, we have entered into a pretty interesting relationship, and we couldn't think of any other way to make a stronger statement to you all about how serious we are about this partnership other than to -- as we head into playoff time -- exchange gifts as long-time Motown Red Wing fans. So what I'm going to do here is I've got a signed Nicklas Lidstrom Red Wing jersey that I am going to present to my good buddy Steve Ballmer. There you go.
So I called Steve, and we went and played golf, and sat down to talk about it, and sure enough, 4:15 this morning we got to a signature on a 10-year collaboration to make interoperable in a very unique and exceptional way here we think will advantage both the Microsoft and the Sun customers in a special way, with interoperability, familiarity, while respecting each other's IP in a very solid way.
SCOTT MCNEALY: Make no mistake about it: There's nothing about this agreement that would upset us if it resulted in people buying more Microsoft and more Sun equipment than they normally would have. We have no issue with that. I don't think you have a problem, and I don't think we have a problem with that. And the rest of the world has to deal with that. So understand that's part of the motivation here.
We've been shipping -- I'm trying to be calm. We've been shipping Intel-based computers for four, five years and we have a complete line of Intel-based products, 1U and 2U products as well as blade products, appliances, OEM and end-user that have been running Solaris as well as Linux on those, and we have announced today that we are certifying all of those products to be Windows ready and Windows compatible.
