Silicon.com: Sun Slams IBM's Desktop Confusion

"Sun has offered IBM the benefit of its 'experience' if Big Blue decides it wants to implement a wholesale move to the Linux desktop.

"In a memo issued on Wednesday, Sun's software executive vice-president Jonathan Schwartz said his company is firmly committed to a wholesale move from the Microsoft desktop -- possibly in the next six months -- and is prepared to help IBM do the same.

"'We're not waiting for 2005 to migrate all of Sun to a non-Microsoft desktop. By the end of this calendar year -- potentially by summer -- we'll be there,' he said..."

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