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Thursday Sep 16, 2004





 
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said Wednesday that a lot of work has been going on in the background to prepare the first round of interoperability between Sun and Microsoft products, part of an agreement the companies reached in April, ending one of the technology industry's longest-running feuds.

Next month, the companies will provide single-sign-on capability for Microsoft's Active Directory and the Java Enterprise LDAP Directory. "Companies are dealing with compliance issues, password-management issues, directory-interoperability issues, and we're trying to address all of those," McNealy said in an interview with InformationWeek.


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mary

p.s. here's my favorite picture of the "Big Boss" and one of  his pals...

Scott and Steve



I know you blog readers love controvery.

Like the time I got controversial on you and disagreed with Bill Joy, widely regarded as one of the smartest people to draw breath from the same atmosphere that sustains me.

Guess what?

picture of Larry Singer

Larry Singer's turn to get controversial. (He's senior vice president and Strategic Insight Officer at Sun Microsystems. Before that he was CIO for the state of Georgia. The one in the US; not the one where Mikhail Saakashvili lives.)

Here's a teaser: "Yogi Berra once (famously) said "It's like Deja Vu all over again", clearly not knowing how appropriate this might be to describe HP's current HP-UX strategy."

editor's comment: You tell it like it is, Larry!

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mary

p.s. you know where you need to go if you need a regular fix of executive insight and scoop.