internetnews.com: Sun and IBM Come to Terms

"Sun Microsystems and IBM put aside their differences over open source and extended their technology agreement for another 10 years.

"The announcement was made here at JavaOne, Sun's developer conference, and it accompanied announcements of the release of more Sun code to open source.

"It's not a coincidence. Sun has been under increasing pressure to open source Java, and Rod Smith, IBM vice president of emerging technologies, fanned the fire with a March 2004 open letter to Sun vice president Rob Gingell..."

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