Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy wore the mantle of pitchman-in-chief for Sun Microsystems Inc. in a well-attended keynote speech at Comdex Monday, painting a sunny picture of his company's future and pushing Sun's technology along with open source software as a way to reduce the complexity of implementing business technology.
An industry group backed by some of Microsoft Corp.'s top competitors has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) claiming that the software maker has already violated terms of a proposed antitrust settlement deal that it reached with the federal government.