Microsoft and Sun

The first questionable questions amidst Microsoft and cheer concerning the design and the sources of Microsoft Java implementation and Suns Java standards start back in 2000 or even earlier. When Suns more powerful and flexible standard of Java 2 arrived, due to different reasons (partially because of the legal troubles over Java)Microsoft was stuck in older JDK 1.1 mode. So it comes to the point, where you have to do virtuallything, or pass off. So Microsoft improved their JVM in the new version of Windows.And then Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has started an antitrust causal agent against Microsoft Corporation.In its complaint ( implore Releases, 2002), Sun alleges that Microsoft has engaged in extensive anticompetitive conduct, including the followingFragmenting the Java platformFlooding the market with incongruous Java Runtime EnvironmentsForcing different companies to distribute or use products that are incompatible with Javaimportantly limiting Suns distribution c hannels for the Java Runtime EnvironmentIntentionally impede with the development of Java-based applications for compatible runtimesCopyright infringement resulting from Microsofts distribution of an unlicensed implementation of the Java Runtime EnvironmentIntentional creation of incompatibilities between Microsoft software and competing technologies, thereby raising switching costs for consumers and reducing consumer choice.The other side of this hanker lasting conflict is trying to find a compromise between those standards (Microsofts own and Suns) and withstanding the law gets with more or less efficiency. too Microsoft protesting against the sources of the lawsuits from Sun. Jim Allchin(Jim Allchin, 2002) from Microsoft wroteThis issue was addressed in detail during the liability phase of the trial. The motor hotel of Appeals determined that it was not illegal for Microsoft to develop and distribute our JVM just because it was incompatible with Suns specification.Also on one of the Microsofts press conferences Steve Ballmer (2004) said active interchanges between their companiesSo Id say thats the elements and then if you take a purport at the hire, some of the money is to resolve our antitrust lawsuit. Some of the payment takes a look back and says lets make sure we are modify with respect to one another on patents. Some of it is forward-looking in terms of how we work together from a patent perspective. And then some of it is forward-looking, us to Sun and Sun to us, in terms of the licensing of key able property that relates to making these things plug together and interoperate well over the network.Press Conference Transcript Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Scott McNealy (Sun), retrieved February 18, 2007, from http//www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/04-02-04SunPressConference.mspxSun Press Releases, Sun files suit against Microsoft for antitrust violations, retrieved February 14, 2007, from http//www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-03/sunflash.2002 0308.1.xmlWritten Direct Testimony of Jim Allchin, retrieved February 18, 2007, from