MIT Technology Review: Google, Sun, and a New PC: Anatomy of a Rumor

“For more than three months, the Internet has been abuzz with
talk of new technologies that might emerge from a collaboration
between search giant Google and networking and software provider
Sun Microsystems.

“The alliance, which appears to be part of an effort to outflank
Microsoft in the area of software and services delivered via the
Web, is quite real: the two companies announced it on October 4,
2005, saying they intended to ‘explore opportunities to promote and
enhance Sun technologies,’ such as the Java virtual operating
system and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite…”

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