On Friday it was announced that HP was going to bundle WebLogic with its UX11i server. BEA and Hewlett-Packard Team Up Against IBM. The article says this will be extended to all of HP's platforms in the future.

On Monday HP announces that it's going to join with Microsoft to promote .NET. Microsoft, HP Promote .NET Strategy. I suppose you're allowed to wager on both horses but I always thought only the bookies won in those cases. On the other hand, I suppose HP does have to hedge its bets so that they come out of the J2EE vs .NET "war" ok whoever "wins".