In CNETAsia, Mike Ricciuti and Martin LaMonica ask the question -- Can Sun-Microsoft cease-fire halt the war?
Have the C-level execs of these two companies really sealed a truce? This CNET news article opines that a large part of the reason driving this 'truce' is customer dis-satisfaction with this long and brooding war on interoperability between these platforms. Another reason for this unusual alliance advanced in this article is to join forces against IBM.
Competition against another 'foe' surely make strange bed-fellows. But how do Scott McNealy, and Steve Ballmer & Bill Gates reduce the noise of the plethora of invectives and insults that they have been slinging at each other for about the last decade?
For example -- in 2001 Bill Gates told CNET News: "Sun's pretty much almost about as pure as you can get as a competitor (to Microsoft). Sun believes in expensive hardware. They think that software R&D shouldn't be funded; they think the idea of empowering knowledge workers is a bad idea."
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