internetnews.com: “‘Almost every customer we have has a mixed environment… they need Java and .NET to interoperate,’ Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz said in a recent company posting. ‘Cooperation with .NET simply means answering the needs of our customers. For example, we are looking at building interoperability between Visual Studio and Java Studio Creator, and having a common philosophy on how you build service-oriented applications delivered through both of those technologies.'”

If Microsoft and Sun can work together toward interoperability, perhaps Red Hat and Debian could too?