Historically, AOL had not been perceived as a pure-play internet provider, with its approach of providing access to a restricted (AOL-controlled) subset of the internet. To summarise, one partner of the alliance no longer has the same motivations...
Led by HP, Nokia, RSA Security, Sony, Sun Microsystems and a raft of powerful user companies, it is often perceived as anti-Microsoft, despite the fact Microsoft has now adopted a federated model. Central to Sun Microsystems' web services vision...
Grainger, an industrial products distributor based in Chicago. In a mark of an increasingly contentious standards-setting process, two factions - represented by Microsoft on one side and Sun Microsystems on the other - have developed competing...
The Sun-led group of companies intends to garner input from other IT providers through the standardisation process, said Ed Jolson, Sun's group manager for web services standards. Sun Microsystems and a handful of partners on Monday will announce...
This achievement was driven by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), which led the effort with a memorandum of understanding that it foisted first upon Microsoft and later on its other major software suppliers - including Sun, IBM, Oracle and...
Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, the XML-based OpenDocument Format has emerged as an alternative with backing from IBM, Sun Microsystems and others, as well as high-profile government customers in Massachusetts...