Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 21:44 UTC
Having recently rediscovered itself as a systems company, Sun Microsystems has been welcomed into Microsoft's vast and growing family of OEM partners. Expanding the companies' three-year-old interoperability pact, Sun has agreed to ship Microsoft's dated but important Windows Server 2003 operating system pre-installed on its x64 machines. The companies will also co-operate on go-to-market activities for the machines. Ars Technica has more.
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Just as long as they don't put a "Sun recommends Windows 2003 Server." tagline on their web site.
If you have a Sun shop and need a few Windows boxes, why not get Sun hardware for it and get it all together? Makes sense to me.
On the other hand, they mention that the Microsoft resellers will be stepping in to install middleware apps. Seems that Sun would think that to be a red flag--give the MS folks an inch and they take a mile and the rest of your datacenter. Hope they're careful.
Will be watching this one.
-m