Standards bearers: No need to cry wolf
It doesn't take long for word to get around when a company attempts to turn a "standard" into a piece of proprietary code. Especially when the company in question is the increasingly scrutinized Microsoft.
It doesn't take long for word to get around when a company attempts to turn a "standard" into a piece of proprietary code. Especially when the company in question is the increasingly scrutinized Microsoft.
Microsoft Corp. has postponed its Java Summit, citing conflicts with the upcoming Internet World show in New York next week.
Microsoft Corp. may be in somewhat of a lull with the U.
Their job is to watch the Linux, Unix and NetWare competition. But some rivals claim that spreading FUD is part of Doug Miller & Co.'s job, too.
No one, Microsoft included, would dispute charges that the Redmond, Wash., software giant is a fierce competitor.
Sun Microsystems Inc. won approval from the International Standards Organization to submit Java as an international standard.
The companies' legal case is set to resume this week in U.S.
Six months ago, with strong input from John Connors, newly appointed VP of its worldwide enterprise group, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) decided to get serious about trying to make inroads in financial services. It launched "Project Gold Digger"--an effort to unseat Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), which has been the dominant vendor on trading floors, and IBM Corp.
Microsoft Corp. updated its Software Development Kit for Java Friday, including Java classes that run with an older version of Sun's Java Developers Kit, version 1.
Microsoft Corp.'s plans for an all-expenses-paid Java love-fest has some developers questioning Microsoft's sincerity in supporting the cross-platform programming environment.