Customers to Microsoft: Play Nice with IBM and Cisco

As part of its Interoperability Executive Customer Council, Microsoft recently got some much-needed feedback from its enterprise-level customers. The customers stressed the importance of Web Services in the context of defining a standards-based implementation for supporting interoperability and said that they want Microsoft to work more closely with IBM and Cisco Systems. "They basically told me, pretty directly, that while Microsoft's implementation was in great shape, IBM's and others were not, and that Microsoft needed to do a better job helping them do a better implementation," Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president for the Server and Tools division, told eWeek.

For more on the story:
- see this article in Baseline