[Dominic Harr]

Truly, from your standpoint, Sun should have followed MS's lead and broken every law they could to coerce people into buying defective products.

Then again, many of us prefer an honest business to a mafia-style one, no matter how much more money the criminals make.

Besides, we'll see how well MS does over the next 5 years, now that they're going to be forced to actually obey the laws of the land, like the rest of us . . .

Ill-gotten empires tend to crumble quickly, if history is any judge.

[Bush2000]

Truly, from your standpoint, Sun should have followed MS's lead and broken every law they could to coerce people into buying defective products.

Poor Sun. They whined and complained and moaned about Microsoft bundling .NET and excluding Java from Windows. And what did they do? Turned around and bundled iPlanet, J2EE, and the kitchen sink into Solaris because "middleware integration is a good idea". Go complain about broken laws to McNealy, your patron saint.

[Bush2000]

Ill-gotten empires tend to crumble quickly, if history is any judge.

LMFAO. Crumble, my ass... MS has more cash than the top ten large-cap companies combined.

[PatrioticAmerican]

" Sun should have followed MS's lead and broken every law they could to coerce people into buying defective "

Instead, Sun breaks every bribery law to get politicians to beat down Microsoft instead of competing to win against them. Of course, Microsoft stands very tall despite the setting Sun, because Microsoft does have products people are willing to pay for.

Do you really think that the Windows OS is the only revenue generating product of Microsoft? Microsoft: 200+ products in 100+ countries.

P.S. I just looked at Solaris 9. Funny thing. They are including auto-update as a new feature. Considering that the feature has been around for Microsoft products for years, is Sun going to tout that as "innovation"?

[bribriagain]

"Ill-gotten empires tend to crumble quickly, if history is any judge."

And the landscape is littered with companies that bet against Microsoft.