“I, Microsoft, take you, Sun, to be my partner,
loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know.
I eagerly anticipate the chance to be as admired as you were,
getting to know the force you had become,
and falling in love a little more every day.
I promise to interop, interop and interop with you
through whatever life may bring us.”

2005 will mark the return of Microsoft to JavaOne though they did send a few employees at attend last year, this year as Sun CEO Scott McNealy announced on Friday (13th of May) not only are they a “major” sponsor but they’re also presenting sessions and BOFs.

Their talks:

BOF-9095 On the Couch With Sun and Microsoft
Ray Lai, Sun Microsystems; Simon Guest, Microsoft Corporation; Marina Fisher, Sun Microsystems; Laurence Moroney, Philotic Software Solutions; Dino Chiesa, Microsoft Corporation; Doug Purdy, Microsoft Corporation

BOF-9854 Systems Management Using Web Services and WS-Management
Akhil Arora, Sun Microsystems; Josh Cohen, Microsoft Corporation

TS-3367 Interoperability Between Javaâ„¢ Technology and .NET: More Than Just Web Services
Kevin Wittkopf, Microsoft; Wayne Citrin, JNBridge, LLC

TS-3552 Javaâ„¢ Technology and .NET Interoperability Using WS-* Web Services Architecture
Robert Brewin, Sun Microsystems; Mark Hapner, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Andrew Layman, Microsoft Corporation

TS-3553 Javaâ„¢ and .NET: Interoperability Challenges and Rewards
Mark Nottingham, BEA Systems, Inc.; Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, Sun Microsystems, Inc; Dino Chiesa, Microsoft Corporation; Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group; Simon Fell, Salesforce.com; William Henry, IONA Technologies

TS-9866 Advanced Web Services Interoperability
Simon Guest, Microsoft Corporation; Raghavan Srinivas, Sun Microsystems

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