San Francisco Chronicle: 3 Tech Titans to Fund Lab

"Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems are teaming up to donate $7.5 million for a new computer science lab at UC Berkeley in an effort that they hope will make it easier for Internet entrepreneurs to test their ideas.

"The goal of the lab is to design a software architecture that could do much of that work automatically, potentially cutting costs dramatically, he said. The work will be done in an open source programming environment, meaning the code developed will be available for all to see and use..."

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