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March 11, 2008 (InfoWorld) Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced two "milestones" on Monday in their ongoing alliance, including the official opening of a Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash.
The center is intended to optimize use of Microsoft applications with Sun Fire x64 servers and storage. The companies also announced the availability of Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
The center will provide a setting for hands-on testing and tuning of Sun/Microsoft systems and help joint customers achieve better performance, Microsoft said. Customers can run key Microsoft applications on Sun x64 servers.
The new Exchange Server software is intended to help customers better manage e-mail growth and realize more benefits of Exchange Server 2007, the companies said. Pretested and end-to-end system and storage configurations will allow customers to migrate to Exchange Server 2007 and save as much as 85% in rack space. Savings can also be achieved in power and cooling, according to Sun and Microsoft.
Other objectives of the center include promotion of interoperability in such areas as virtualization, Java, systems management and identity, and collaboration. The center will collaborate with authorized Sun Solution Centers.
The Sun/Microsoft center will certify Java Platform Enterprise Edition and Java Platform Standard Edition, including the Java Runtime Environment software for and with Microsoft operating environments and applications, the companies said. In addition, joint work will be conducted to enable cross-platform server virtualization, including Windows Hyper-V and Sun xVM software.
Cross-company collaboration also will be done to allow Sun Ray thin-client software to provide a virtual desktop for Windows.
After years of disputes, Sun and Microsoft announced a broad-based collaboration agreement in 2004.
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