Longtime Rivals IBM, Sun to Collaborate

August 16th, 2007

(AP) -- Two longtime rivals in computing, IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., plan to cooperate on some server technologies, a move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard Co.

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