Microsoft and Sun expand strategic alliance
September 17, 2007
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have confirmed that Sun has signed on as a Windows Server OEM. Additionally, Sun and Microsoft will collaborate to further enable deployment of Windows Server on Sun x64 systems.
Furthermore, Sun and Microsoft will continue to collaborate to advance the worldwide deployment of the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform on Sun servers and storage systems. AT&T U-verse digital TV offering has chosen Sun for one of world’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Mediaroom platform, which includes server and client software. The combination of Sun’s server solutions and Microsoft’s TV software technology is expected to speed time-to-market for IPTV services, while providing superior cost and performance characteristics for communications service providers worldwide.
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