One year after Microsoft and Sun Microsystems buried the hatchet, the two are closer to achieving Web services and networking interoperability.
On April 2, 2004, the two bitter rivals ended their dispute by swapping handshakes and Hockey jerseys. Headlines joked that hell had frozen over, because of the stubborn and outspoken nature of the two chief executives, Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos then got busy, with more than 24 engineers from the two companies assigned to the task of making sure their customers and partners can use their products at the same time.
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