on the other for your Intel-based business. How does it feel to be in that job? What is it like to know that your company has to work really closely your chief competitor?
Mills: It's great fun. We cooperate with Sun on Java and other standards. And with Microsoft, we have found ways to cooperate on XML and Web services, and we're quite pleased with that. We're enthusiastic about their embracing of this technology. You know, you can spend a lot of time wondering about Microsoft's reasons for doing that. But I think they know that they need to drive customer adoption. Delivering products that are proprietary and that don't operate well with other things gets in the way of their business, so they have had to find ways to move closer to a standards-based approach than perhaps they were doing years ago.
Tech Update: Have you asked Sun to join the Web Services Interoperability Organization?
Mills: Sun is in a position to join the WS-I initiative. It's open to them.
Tech Update: Have you approached them and asked them to please join?
Mills: We've approached lots of companies to join, and Sun has to make their decision as to what they want to do and how they want to do it, but it's open to them to join.
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