Sun Microsystems aims to exploit IBM's Unix woes
Reuters | at | by Mike
Tough times for Microsoft's competitors. Now instead going after MS they turn on each other: Sun vs. IBM, SCO Group (unix) vs. IBM (linux), Oracle vs. PeopleSoft.
Sun Microsystems, looking to poach customers from a rival in a weak market for server computers, said on Thursday it had begun contacting companies that may be worried about a legal challenge to IBM's rights to the Unix operating system. Sun, which has been hit hard along with rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard during the high-tech recession, said the effort to contact customers began this week was backed by a campaign also aimed at exploiting the legal dispute between IBM and SCO Group.