SAN FRANCISCO -- Tech titans IBM (IBM Quote) and Sun Microsystems (SUNW Quote) are betting that they stand a better chance of boosting sales as partners rather than rivals.
The companies announced on Thursday that Sun's Solaris operating system will be immediately available to run applications on IBM's low-end servers. Sun's Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz billed the deal as a "tectonic shift in the market landscape" that will introduce products from each company to a broader range of clients.
Users of IBM servers will now be able to choose Solaris as their operating system over IBM's homegrown product, called AIX. The deal follows similar moves IBM has made to open its servers up to an array of popular operating systems, including Microsoft's (MSFT Quote) Windows and Novell's (NOVL Quote) Unix operating system. ...
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