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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: QwikSand who wrote (63862)5/4/2006 6:29:50 PM
From: shlurker  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
well, then... is this a big deal - affecting 'crucial'( in my humble opinion) Niagra project?

ttp://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060316_116344.htm
MARCH 16, 2006
By Peter Burrows
Sun Sets on Azul's Technology
Did startup Azul use Sun Microsystems' trade secrets to develop a hot new server? There's a potentially nasty legal wrangle in the works
In the fall of 2004, Azul Systems Chief Executive Stephen W. DeWitt paid a visit to Sun Microsystems CEO Scott G. McNealy. Azul was weeks away from unveiling a server that would compete with Sun products, and DeWitt was determined to pay his former boss a courtesy call. "I have a lot of respect for him, and for a lot of people at Sun," DeWitt says. "I could have let him read about [Azul's new machine] in BusinessWeek , but that's not what we did. We were open with him." ...<clip>

and today in San Jose Mercury News:
ttp://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060316_116344.htm
Sun strikes back in patent battle with Azul
By Therese Poletti
Mercury News
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Sun also contends Azul developed its products and product strategy based on Sun's plans for its new T2000 server, designed around Sun's multi-core chip, code-named Niagara. Much of the technology for the Niagara chip came from Sun's acquisition of Afara, a start-up purchased in July 2002. Sun alleges key Azul engineers, Cliff Click, Kevin Normoyle and others -- all former Sun employees -- had access to confidential information later copied by Azul.
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