Friday, April 16, 2004

John Fowler, VP and CTO, Software elaborates on the landmark agreement between Sun and Microsoft: "In a landmark agreement, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Corporation reached an agreement last week that they had brought an end to all existing litigation. "

from my mail

Q. What does this mean for Java? Will Microsoft join the JCP?

A. Sun continues to fully support Java through the Java Community Process. With respect to Microsoft joining the JCP, as always, we certainly welcome them to join and participate in standards setting collaboration to benefit customers and contribute to innovation.

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Q. Does this mean that Sun is now against Open Source?

A. No. In fact, outside of the University of California at Berkeley, Sun is the largest contributor of open-source code on the planet and we will continue to contribute to the community. Sun is as committed as ever to the Open Source community and we have hundreds of engineers working on projects from Apache and Mozilla to Jxta and Open Office.

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