What's behind the Sun-GSA tiff?

Interesting week for Sun Microsystems. They got a little cozier to Microsoft while closing a door on a rather large customer -- the US government.

The US General Service Administration's inspector general has been accusing Sun of overcharging on its contracts with the government. Austin Modine at the Reg says Sun has refuted the charge, but I think Austin means disputed, not refuted.

But Sun's defense directly attacks the GSA inspector general Brian Miller, characterizing him as biased against Sun and as filing reports that are "riddled with inaccuracies and conspicuous omissions of multiple known facts."

Now Sun has pulled out of its multiple awards schedule contract with the feds, which appears to be no small deal.

On the other hand Sun's become a Windows Server 2003 OEM, so I'm not sure how the week nets out.

Calendar summer won't be over for a few days, but Google's Summer of Code is at an end. Word is they're going to have another Summer next year. May I suggest the Northwest Passage Beachfront as a location?

Posted by Mike Swaine at 05:56 PM  Permalink