There's a lot of news about Sun Microsystems, these days. A court has ordered Microsoft to include Sun's version of Java in Windows XP (although that ruling has been stayed pending a decision on Microsoft's appeal). Sun recently announced that 1 million developers have downloaded its 2-year-old peer-to-peer networking
software-dubbed JXTA (for the word juxtapose)-and that many applications are using the software. And the company's software strategy has been shifting, lately. Sun just unveiled its Project Orion strategy, which brings the company's software offerings together into one scheduled quarterly release of an integrated system with a uniform licensing policy. We discussed Sun's initiatives with CTO John Fowler, one of the key drivers behind technologies such as
Java and Solaris.

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