So what's up with Sun & Google?
Friday, 7. October 2005, 12:27:49
The best post I've seen on the partnership between Sun and Google is at Charlene Lee's Blog
What she says is this . . .
First, anyone who downloads Java from Sun will get the Google toolbar. Good for Sun because it gets dollars from Google. Good for Google beacause it spreads the toolbar and brings eyeballs to search on Google.
Second, OpenOffice is still in the picture. Li speculates the financials of the deal are still being worked out.
Third, sooner or later Li Says, Google has to get out of the business of building its own servers and just buy them off-the-shelf. Sun will be ready and willing to sell servers to Google as that change occurs.
Finally, the toolbar deal pushes Sun's name into consumer spaces which IMHO it has not had given its historical presence in financial services and telecommunications industries.
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And here's an update from the Register . . .
No Office suite from us - Google
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk)
Published Saturday 8th October 2005 04:12 GMT
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite.
"We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below). However Brin left the door open a little. Documents would be easier to work with in the future, he promised, but he didn't think a fat client was the way to go.
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Lots more obnoxious commentary and a mouse gesture at the cited URL.
What she says is this . . .
First, anyone who downloads Java from Sun will get the Google toolbar. Good for Sun because it gets dollars from Google. Good for Google beacause it spreads the toolbar and brings eyeballs to search on Google.
Second, OpenOffice is still in the picture. Li speculates the financials of the deal are still being worked out.
Third, sooner or later Li Says, Google has to get out of the business of building its own servers and just buy them off-the-shelf. Sun will be ready and willing to sell servers to Google as that change occurs.
Finally, the toolbar deal pushes Sun's name into consumer spaces which IMHO it has not had given its historical presence in financial services and telecommunications industries.
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And here's an update from the Register . . .
No Office suite from us - Google
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk)
Published Saturday 8th October 2005 04:12 GMT
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite.
"We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below). However Brin left the door open a little. Documents would be easier to work with in the future, he promised, but he didn't think a fat client was the way to go.
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Lots more obnoxious commentary and a mouse gesture at the cited URL.
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