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sitepointRefugee
04-04-2004, 06:09 AM
Pretty big news in IT industry, so I thought I should mention it here as well.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15150
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/technology/04SUN.html?ex=1081659600&en=57fdb7fa5fb1db7f&ei=50 62&partner=GOOGLE
http://www.ndtv.com/money/showbusinessstory.asp?slug=Microsoft%2C+Sun+settle +row&id=18365

Reading various articles and commentaries, I find that generally IT professionals are taking this very very negatively; on the contrary, Wall Street's take on this is very positive; http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=sunw. Since I program much of my site in Java, I have some concern personally. What's your take on this or you don't really care much?