Microsoft and Sun Microsystems in collaboration

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems in collaboration

This makes the most unlikely pair of all. Microsoft and Sun made a legal settlement around a year back to help each other bridge the gap between their operating systems. And the companies have now declared that they are nearing the release of the first products out of that collaboration.

Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker and Sun happens to be a giant in the network computers, servers, and software market. Microsoft agreed to pay a massive USD 2 Billion to Sun to resolve the dispute in a 10-year technical collaboration agreement. The lawsuit was related to the anti-competitive behavior Microsoft has quite often been charged with.

The latest efforts plans to allow a single Web-based sign-on between systems that use both Microsoft and Sun software. This would help the network administrators to eliminate multiple user names for different employees of a company. The representative of the two companies claimed that the results are a proof, which shows that they are serious about working with each other and release products, which benefits the end customers.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement: “We’ve been hard at work, the two companies, for a year. We’re poised to leave the computer lab now and enter the marketplace.”