Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunSelect is now grudgingly acknowledging that for Wabi to run some applications or program revisions it would require Microsoft Corp Windows underneath: readers of our sister paper Unigram.X complained last week that SunSelect was misusing intellectual property when it suggested that programs such as Paradox and PowerPoint – software Wabi contends it runs, despite the fact that it can’t supply the Microsoft Object Linking & Embedding Dynamic Data Exchange they need to interact – borrow that facility from a neighboring software program rather than use a Windows package; SunSelect is now saying that is possible but not desirable and claims that the second release of Wabi will supply the missing Object Linking & Embedding.
