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Sun says Microsoft pact not a blow to standards

April 6, 2004 Despite a new window into Microsoft's proprietary technology, Sun Microsystems won't stop its call for open standards, executives and analysts say. TAGS: open standard, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scott McNealy, pact, standards, call, antitrust, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., agreement, server, Microsoft Windows

Sun faces open-source swarm

June 27, 2005 As JavaOne gets under way, the company is seeing the center of Java move away from the Sun-controlled standards process. TAGS: JavaOne, Sun Microsystems Inc., BEA Systems Inc., Java, open source, Java company, Java tool, Sun Java, standards, Java application, center, development tool, project, Oracle Corp., developer, server

Sun reluctant to make Java open source

March 17, 2004 The company's top software executive calls IBM's proposal to make Java open source "weird" and says it would encourage incompatible standards. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, SCO Group Inc., compatibility, Java software, IBM Corp., standards, Linux, vice president, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

What's wrong with the Java community process?

March 10, 2005 IBM's software chief Steve Mills says a more democratic standards process would be to everyone's benefit--even Sun. TAGS: Steve Mills, JCP, Java, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., community, standards, open source

Who says standards are sacred?

March 18, 2004 CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says the latest Java dispute opens the window on a little-discussed truth: Standardization usually favors bigger companies. TAGS: standardization, Eric Raymond, Java, standards, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., cell phone

Liberty Alliance debuts new standard

November 12, 2003 The Sun-backed group releases the latest revision of specifications that allow companies to securely share identity and account information across several Web sites. TAGS: Liberty Alliance, specification, standards, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web service, security, Microsoft Corp.

Is open source getting to Microsoft?

September 15, 2006 Pledge not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model--as far as Microsoft, even. TAGS: Web service, open source, patent, intellectual property, standards, open-source community, vendor, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows

Office standards battle grinds on

December 13, 2005 Creation of Ecma standard committee gives Microsoft a point in escalating battle over desktop software. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, ECMA, productivity-application, technical committee, committee, Massachusetts, desktop software, Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., standards, state, IBM Corp., vice president, Microsoft Corp.

Doctors' digital duty

September 12, 2006 Wayne Owens and Frank Richards say a dated medical-technology system is in a state of emergency. TAGS: e-health, health care, electronic health record, doctor, hospital, health care company, physician, nation, Hurricane Katrina, health, legislation, Sun Microsystems Inc., standards, president

Massachusetts says it's open to multiple formats

December 14, 2005 State senators air the issues around its decision to use OpenDocument as the default desktop application format. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Massachusetts, OASIS, standards, forum, productivity-application, senator, state, standard, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, decision, information technology, XML, vice president, Sun Microsystems Inc.

XML as the great peacemaker

December 21, 2000 Extensible Markup Language accomplished the seemingly impossible this year: It brought bitter software enemies together to speak the same tongue. TAGS: Ariba Inc., XML, B2B, standards, Oracle Corp., vision, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., software company, HP, Microsoft Windows

Free speech, free beer and free software

August 20, 2002 Tracing the evolution of open source, Sun Microsystems exec Simon Phipps explains why the common assumption that this software carries a zero price tag has led to more than a small bit of confusio... TAGS: beer, Sun NetBeans, community, open source, Free Software Foundation, price tag, GPL, Apache Software Foundation, speech, standards, project, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, developer

Year in review: Web services finds its way

December 30, 2003 XML-based standards became the default system for sharing data in 2003, as companies and their customers adopted Web services to get the benefits of information access and interoperability. TAGS: Web service, application integration, interoperability, XML, Microsoft Longhorn, standards, software company, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Java tools advocacy group stands up

January 6, 2004 A group of 10 Java companies forms to lobby for greater awareness of tools in Java standards. Notably absent are Java tools heavyweights IBM and Borland. TAGS: Java tool, JCP, Java standard, Java, BEA Systems Inc., Java software company, heavyweight, Java software, Borland Software Corp., development tool, IDE, standards, member, SAP AG, telecommunications, software company
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