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Article: Sun-Microsoft Glasnost may make a simpler world for IT enterprises.(Vendors)(information technology)
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- RETHINK IT
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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The sudden breaking out of 'Glasnost' between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems is clearly a fake accommodation between two parties that fundamentally hate each other. But it's going to make life a lot easier in the IT shop.
Actually Microsoft is so unfazed by anything Sun does these days that it really couldn't muster the energy to hate its former tormentor any more. But ill reverse, we're pretty sure that Sun was showing its true colors when it described Bill Gates as 'Darth Vader', and Microsoft as the 'Evil Empire', to borrow the Star Wars terminology that Sun has so frequently used.
The thing that we need to work out is just what this might mean to ...