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Fortune: Behind Microsoft’s Settlement with Sun? The Power of the Open-Source Movement

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 8, 2004

“Once the shock of seeing Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy
happily together on the same stage had passed, the world of tech
punditry last Friday turned to the question, What does Microsoft’s
settlement with Sun mean?

“Though many aspects of the deal remain murky, let’s speculate
anyway. Driving the peace settlement, it seems to me, is an
awareness that we are all moving from a world of centralized
proprietary technologies into one of distributed power in
computing. Sun and Microsoft are nervously seeking to position
themselves for the new reality, with which they are both profoundly
uncomfortable…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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