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I bet it's more than 10 years
Looks like Mr. Softee has bought the rights to the the Sun farm:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/apr04/04-02SunAgreementPR.asp
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No Surprise  mabricen | 04/02/04
That is, until the next lawsuit..  Delaware Boy | 04/02/04
I bet it's more than 10 years  StorageGuru | 04/02/04
I thought it was April's fool  dg mh | 04/02/04
NYeT might have a future in real computing  oldskool | 04/02/04
NYeT might have a future in real computing  oldskool | 04/02/04
Well....  NemesisNL | 04/02/04
In other news...  BitTwiddler | 04/02/04
The Sun is setting  Enterprise Analyst | 04/02/04
Perhaps you should look at where MS is going  oldskool | 04/02/04
Perhaps you should look at where MS is going  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
think enterprise not desktop ... its bigger than a lan  oldskool | 04/02/04
think enterprise not desktop ... its bigger than a lan  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
some people like gui's  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Is this the same MS as B4 EU ruling?  oldskool | 04/02/04
MS refesed to team up B4 Win3.11  oldskool | 04/02/04
Scott 's son???  mabricen | 04/02/04
it's all about the Benjamins  oldskool | 04/02/04
Totally agree  mabricen | 04/02/04
it's all about the Benjamins  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
You're all missing the point, is all about fighting IBM (NT)  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
Bingo  rapson | 04/02/04
And ...  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
Sun brings alot of credibility to MS's story  oldskool | 04/02/04
Depends on who you ask  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
No, it's about OSS and startups...  techboy_z | 04/02/04
Correct, but ...  Ardian Daka | 04/02/04
it is all about getting there first  V Sanders | 04/02/04
but...  ryusen | 04/02/04
True  NemesisNL | 04/03/04
The Notorious Pretender.  systemcleaner | 04/03/04
"Peace In Our Time"  BanjoPaterson | 04/02/04
Very hard to believe  BruceWheelock@... | 04/02/04
Real reason for this hugh agreement  JJ_z | 04/02/04
If so  mabricen | 04/02/04
If so  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
followed you up until #4  oldskool | 04/02/04
You're making my point  JJ_z | 04/02/04
You're making my point  seosamh_z | 04/02/04
Sun competes on value and vision  oldskool | 04/02/04
Sun competes on value and vision  seosamh_z | 04/04/04
Actually, alot of developers get MSDN for free - who cares?  oldskool | 04/04/04
Sun is and always was a HW company  oldskool | 04/02/04
Reason 4A.  JJ_z | 04/02/04
Sun didn't need to licese UNIX from SCO .. they bought it  oldskool | 04/02/04
#2 and #5  NemesisNL | 04/03/04
It could be a win/win  oldskool | 04/03/04
Sun needs to get focus back  Rodney Davis | 04/02/04
A Great Friday Armchair Topic  Peter Komisar | 04/02/04
Seems odd  rapson | 04/02/04
Gotta give MS it's due....  quietLee | 04/02/04
ms loves the competition  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Scott admits defeat?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/02/04
That's the way I want to be defeated...  NemesisNL | 04/03/04
Microsoft did the same thing with Apple many years back.  B.O.F.H. | 04/04/04
This situation's a bit different  Mark Miller | 04/05/04
We got 2 billion dollars!  Chad_z | 04/02/04
And the way Sun is burning thru cash:  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
sun gets 1.5 bil from ms  V Sanders | 04/02/04
Why would Microsoft prop up Sun?  Anton Philidor | 04/02/04
Sun solves quite a few problems for MS if they want  oldskool | 04/02/04
Nope, Sun is de-emphasizing hardware  Anton Philidor | 04/03/04
ah, some people use c#, thanks  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Yeah, C# blows java away....  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
Sun is a useful ally  StorageGuru | 04/02/04
Still say the issue is Java.  Anton Philidor | 04/03/04
ms doesn't want anything to do with java  V Sanders | 04/03/04
J2EE support in C# one alternative, dump C# is another  oldskool | 04/03/04
b ut a lot of people use C#  V Sanders | 04/03/04
People still depend on MS Basic too ....  oldskool | 04/04/04
3 million Java developers  Anton Philidor | 04/05/04
April fool's day was yesterday.  zd-spam | 04/03/04
OOPS--- OOPS---April fool's day was two days ago.  zd-spam | 04/03/04
MS has NO chance gaining  michael-t | 04/03/04
No chance???? HA-HA-HA-HA  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
Sun the next AOL?  FilledOut | 04/02/04
Lets hope 1 billion in charity is enough  jimk_z | 04/02/04
ms can never win  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Firewall does not secure the applications on the machine  oldskool | 04/05/04
MS now owns Corel, Apple, SCO, AOL, Sun... who's next?  Michel Merlin | 04/03/04
ZDNET is next  Saxonborg | 04/03/04
if it wasn't for ms wanting to  V Sanders | 04/03/04
humm  alphaomega | 04/03/04
PeopleSoft, man...  Stewart Cannon | 04/15/04
A welcome surprise  Mark Miller | 04/05/04
Message has been deleted.  do not use linuxcad | 04/05/04
Does it mean Sun needs new chief of software?  do not use linuxcad | 04/05/04

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