Sun"s chief strategy officer, Jonathan Schwartz, testifies that Microsoft could use its .Net strategy to thwart competition and extend its monopoly power to the Internet.
A high-level Sun Microsystems executive has told a federal court that Microsoft feels threatened by the industry"s move toward Web services and is hard at work trying to co-opt that trend and nullify the dangers it poses to the dominance of its operating system.
"Web services continue to be a substantial, viable threat to Windows," Jonathan Schwartz, Sun"s chief strategy officer, said in written testimony submitted to the court. "Because Web services components increasingly reside and run on servers that can be accessed with a variety of client devices, consumers will not be required to purchase Microsoft"s desktop operating system in order to run the applications that they desire."