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To: cfimx who wrote (64377)	9/12/2007 4:47:15 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Noteworthy.... Sun to sell Windows Server boxes Back in the excitingly heady days of the dot-com bubble, the rivalry between Sun and Microsoft was one of the highlights. Sun's famous motto "The Network is the Computer" threatened to make Microsoft's desktop monopoly obsolete, and visions of a world of thin clients running Java backed up by expensive Sun servers were dancing in then-CEO Scott McNealy's head. Much has changed since then, of course. McNealy resigned, lawsuits were settled, and these days Sun and Microsoft are fast friends. Now, in a rather stunning bit of news, Microsoft and Sun announced at a press conference that Sun has signed up to become a Windows Server Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), selling Sun x64-based servers that come bundled with Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Sun has released a chart showing which hardware will be ready for the Windows operating system, and the company is expected to ship the first bundled systems within 90 days. Related StoriesWindows makes small gains on the server Sun's Project Indiana: turning OpenSolaris into a practical platform Sun releases ODF Plugin 1.0 for Microsoft Office Microsoft Malware Protection Center opens for business The move is a stunning departure for Sun, who in the past exclusively promoted its own Unix-based operating system, Solaris, and more recently Linux and Linux-derived products such as the Sun Java Desktop System (JDS). "Sun is now a single source for today's leading operating systems—Solaris and Windows—on the industry's most innovative x64 systems and storage products," said John Fowler, executive vice president at Sun. The rest of the article: arstechnica.com