Now this shows maturity in the industry! 

Microsoft has invited Sun, IBM, BEA and the Open Source folks to talk about what it would take to make all of the various vendor technologies work together in the customer environment.  It would appear that a majority of them, with the notable exception of IBM and the Open Source guys, have accepted!

They are going to kick off a series of about 40 webcasts in January. Find out more about it and pre-register.

Very, Very Cool!