Microsoft, Sun Call Truce

摘要

Sun microsystems said Friday that it has entered into a "broad cooperation agreement" with Microsoft and settled all outstanding litigation. Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve all pending anti-trust issues and $900 million to resolve all patent issues. After years of legal wrangling, the companies agreed not to sue each other regarding any past patent infringement claims and to begin negotiations for a patent cross-license agreement. The deal has broad implications for customers and may result in improved collaboration between their competing Java and .Net architectures. Declaring a new relationship between itself and Microsoft, Sun said that the companies have agreed to enable their products to better work together and have entered agreements on patents and other issues.