Nice to see some public visibility shining on the fruits of technical cooperation between Microsoft and Sun.  My contacts with representatives from Sun at the W3C, luminaries like Norm Walsh, Marc Hadley, Tim Bray, Eduardo Gutentag, and Roberto Chinnici, have been one of fruitful cooperation (from my viewpoint anyway) for a long time now.  If my sample of standards representatives are representative of the quality of all Sun employees, I wouldn’t discount their rather unfortunate stock price just yet.