Although I'm not heavily involved in it, other members of the team I work in have had a great deal to do with the interoperability work between Sun and Microsoft, particularly around the initiative known as 'Tango'.
This is the interoperability work to address the 'touch points' between Vista's web services stack and Java. On the Vista/web services side it therefore encompasses specifications such as WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, WS-Coordination, WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-AtomicKitten. Sorry, that last one should have read 'WS-AtomicTransaction'... but their last single sucked.
Anyway, with this in mind, it's very nice to see positive coverage about this kind of work, so here's a pointer to an article in today's SDTimes.
As you might remember, we did some ID-FF/WS-Federation interoperabliity work with Microsoft's people here in the UK, and I found them to be extremely positive, professional and customer-focussed. It's good to see that experience replicated elsewhere...
Here are a couple of salient quotes from the SDTimes article:
[The Sun and Microsoft engineering teams] "found that engineering knows no prejudice";
"Microsoft has called it the best implementation of the WS-* standards outside of its own."
Hats off to Nick Kassem and his team!
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Posted by Arun on February 03, 2007 at 03:07 AM GMT+00:00 #