Third-Party Interoperability Resources (will leave sun.com)

• Sys Admin magazine, an online magazine for UNIX and Linux system administrators, which provides articles on relevant issues and white papers, such as this Solaris Operating System and Linux Interoperability white paper by Sun (PDF).

• Details about upcoming Microsoft interoperability "plug-fests," which are Web Services interoperability events that are focused on WS-* specifications, hosted by Microsoft, and attended by other vendors. In each plug-fest, participants use their Web Services stack to interoperate on scenarios and test cases that are defined using these specifications. Also see the blog by Arun Gupta, Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Applications at Sun, which provides information about Sun's participation in plug-fests.

• Microsoft's interoperability web site.

• Microsoft .NET and Java/J2EE interoperability information.

• Web site of Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization, an open industry organization that promotes Web Services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages.

• Open Solutions Alliance web site, which provides links to interoperability information.