“Just over two years ago, we launched this column with a quick
look at Sun Microsystems, which had managed to make headlines twice
that week by snuggling up closer to SCO and making a beta release
of the Orion ‘software train.’“We also picked up on some industry support for Apple’s
Rendezvous (which, thanks to a trademark dispute and an ongoing
case of francophilia in Cupertino, is now ‘Bonjour’) and Sun’s
attempt to abscond with HP customers yet unsold on Itanium (which
we were calling ‘Itanium 2’ at the time, because it seemed
polite)…”