The battle between Sun and Microsoft over inclusion of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Windows wages on. At stake, according to a U.S. District Court, is the fairness of the fight between Java and .Net. for middleware supremacy.
Court documents indicate that unless certain legal measures are taken to level the playing field, Microsoft's monopoly of the Intel-based desktop operating system market--and the distribution channel that monopoly represents--could lead to another monopoly of the middleware market.
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