From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/27/ms_v_ec_dayfour_qanda/

"Cooke wanted to know to what extent servers from other vendors, like
Novell and Sun, were able to interoperate seamlessly as required by the
Commission’s decision. Whelan said any products using open standards like
LDAP do interoperate but Microsoft’s barrister Mr Forrester said Sun and
Novell were not replaceable within the “blue bubble” - Microsoft’s analogy
for workgroup servers' “special relationship”.

Judge Cooke turned his attention to Samba founder Andrew Tridgell and asked
him if he accepted Microsoft’s assertion that communication within the blue
bubble or workgroup was more intense or intimate communication.

Tridgell did not. He said: “Not only are the protocols not unique in nature
within the bubble or even more intense. Printing, surprisingly, is a very
intense process and it's not uncommon for client machines to even send
actual code.”"


Adam

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