Microsoft and Sun

The first problematical questions between Microsoft and temperateness concerning the design and the sources of Microsoft Java implementation and Suns Java standards start back in 2000 or even earlier. When Suns to a greater extent powerful and flexible standard of Java 2 arrived, due to different reasons (partially because of the legal troubles over Java)Microsoft was stuck in older JDK 1.1 mode. So it comes to the point, where you have to do something, or pass off. So Microsoft improved their JVM in the bran-new version of Windows.And then Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has started an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation.In its complaint (Press Releases, 2002), Sun alleges that Microsoft has in use(p) in extensive anticompetitive conduct, including the followingFragmenting the Java platformFlooding the market with incompatible Java Runtime EnvironmentsForcing different companies to distribute or use products that are incompatible with JavaSignificantly limiting Suns distribution take for the Java Runtime EnvironmentIntentionally interfering with the arrestment of Java-based applications for compatible runtimesCopyright infringement resulting from Microsofts distribution of an unauthorized implementation of the Java Runtime EnvironmentIntentional creation of incompatibilities between Microsoft software and competing technologies, thereby raising permutation costs for consumers and reducing consumer choice.The other side of this long lasting conflict is trying to find a compromise between those standards (Microsofts own and Suns) and withstanding the lawsuits with more or less efficiency.Also Microsoft protesting against the sources of the lawsuits from Sun. Jim Allchin(Jim Allchin, 2002) from Microsoft wroteThis bare was addressed in detail during the liability phase of the trial. The Court of Appeals determined that it was not illegal for Microsoft to develop and distribute our JVM just because it was incompatible with Suns specificat ion.Also on one of the Microsofts press conferences Steve Ballmer (2004) said rough interchanges between their companiesSo Id say thats the elements and then if you take a look at the payment, some of the funds is to resolve our antitrust lawsuit. Some of the payment takes a look back and says lets make sure we are clean with respect to one another on patents. Some of it is forward-looking in legal injury of how we flow together from a patent perspective. And then some of it is forward-looking, us to Sun and Sun to us, in terms of the licensing of key intellectual property that relates to making these things plug together and interoperate well over the network.Press group Transcript Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Scott McNealy (Sun), retrieved February 18, 2007, from http//www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/04-02-04SunPressConference.mspxSun Press Releases, Sun files suit against Microsoft for antitrust violations, retrieved February 14, 2007, from http//www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunfla sh/2002-03/sunflash.20020308.1.xmlWritten now Testimony of Jim Allchin, retrieved February 18, 2007, from