IBM Has Teamed with Longtime Rival Sun Microsystems to Cooperate

question 112

Multiple Choice

IBM has teamed with longtime rival Sun Microsystems to cooperate on server technologies so that Sun's Solaris operating system could run on IBM's servers and eventually on its mainframes. This is an example of a(an)

• A) equity-based vertical complementary alliance.
• B) equity-based horizontal complementary alliance
• C) nonequity-based vertical complementary alliance.
• D) nonequity-based horizontal complementary alliance.

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