Sun Microsystems Inc and Fujitsu Ltd, the world’s second largest computer company, are expected to announce extensions of their on-going alliance – Fujitsu is a big reseller of Sun workstations in Japan and a major fabricator of Sparc chips – to cover technology transfers in the areas of chips, systems and software, but there is scepticism that the deal will include Fujitsu standardising on Solaris Unix as Sun would dearly like.
SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND FUJITSU ALLIANCE ANNOUNCEMENT DUE
