The remainder of Schwartz' letter smacked more of an advertisement for Enterprise Java Desktop than a slam on Microsoft, whose upgrade cycle beenfitted from the multi-year Java duel with Sun.
Microsoft opted to develop its own Java virtual machine rather than use Sun's native Java machine, a decision that resulted in years of litigation between the two that culminated in a settlement in 2001.
Still, Sun, armed with recent wins for its new Enterprise Java Desktop with the Chinese Government and the United Kingdom, hopes to have the last laugh.
"While Microsoft scapegoats Sun, the world is discovering the wonders of Sun's Java Desktop System - which delivers all the functionality of a Windows environment, at a tenth the price, and with ten times the security," the letter concluded, pointing out the wins with Chinese Government and United Kingdom's National Health Service and Office of Government Commerce discovered it. "Sun's Java Desktop System delivers an engaging, very low cost alternative to the proprietary Microsoft platform - which you can deploy without retraining, or fear of incompatibility."
Schwartz ended the letter with a strong pitch for customers to defect to Linux.
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