Sun and Microsoft Make Nice

DrLudicrous writes "Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have reached some kind of settlement (NYTimes, registration required) with regards to patent issues and Sun's antitrust suit against Microsoft. Microsoft is apparently going to pay Sun about 1.6 billion US dollars, join into a ten-year pact of cooperation, and resolve a set of patent disputes. This has been in the works for about a year, starting as a series of phone calls between Scott McNealy and Steve Ballmer. You can also catch the story here." update oh well, it's a duplicate. Nothing else interesting happening today :)

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Try to think positive, sigh.

[bstarrfield]

Oh, well. MS wins again. First Apple, the DOJ, now Sun. The EU case doesn't have any real effect on MS from a business perspective. On the positive side, at least an infusion of cash will keep Sun from falling into the same sad state as SGI. Look, Apple dealt with the devil and went on to produce some great stuff. We can hope the same occurs with Sun. On the whole Java vs. C#, I honestly wish Sun would have made some of the same semantic improvements that MS came up with.

Sun Also cuts 9% of it's work force

[DocUi]

Some articles Like this one Talk about how Sun is also cutting 3 300 jobs. Sucky.