[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Honing their competitive edge, two Silicon Valley-based
heavyweights reinforced a 20-year old relationship with a new
partnership entitled “Oracle Makes Sun Unbreakable.”“At a press conference in here, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun
and Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said they would work
together to consolidate resources including development, reference
architectures, service partners and third party integrators as well
as future engineering efforts…“”Sun also said it has entered into a global alliance agreement
with Red Hat to distribute the company’s Linux operating system,
and to broaden the use of each other’s technologies. As part of the
agreement, Red Hat will distribute Sun’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Sun, in turn, will sell and support
all x86 versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux WS…”