Sources close to the joint efforts between Google and Sun say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far more likely that Sun and Google will find ways to promote both OpenOffice.org and Google Toolbar, including having Toolbar included as part of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, and even OpenSolaris and Sun’s branded Solaris products.
So this begs the question why did they even meet in the first place? They made a big thing out of it and only agreed to promote the Google Toolbar? How lame.
The meeting jacked up marketing hype, and created speculation. That’s likely exactly what was intended.
It’s for the same reason some of the OS’s have a daily point release. If nothing else the press release IS the news, rather than the product.
Well, I think the media and blogosphere hyped this one up a lot more than Google and Sun did.
if you noticed prior to this release jonathan schwartz wrote a big article over leaking within sun.
AND sun and google both left the door open for possible future collaboration, saying its just “phase one”….
they wanted the speculation and they wanted to see what interests they could get up and scare microsoft, etc… very smart..
i suspect that they wanted to help sun’s stock price too, since they are both hommies.
perhaps they wanted people not to leak that its just a toolbar deal rather…. or what secrets they may have/be planning…
this corporate crap is funny isnt it. get on with it i say.
Too bad it didn’t help their stock price, and Sun was really the only half that was hyping the whole thing up. Fortunately, most of the IT world saw through the attention whoring BS.
So this begs the question why did they even meet in the first place?
That’s easy. Sun wanted a little bit of the google spotlight.
Jobs totally misled the public with his stance on a video Ipod, possibly to get a leg up on MS in the media center market so it’s entirely possible that this is strategic BS. There’s just no way to know for sure.
Why the Lycoris Icon?
nevermind
google and sun should do what the entire world wants—-they have already been shown by the huge interest by the partnership…
perhaps its time to move beyond the toolbar and openoffice deal and do something that makes even more profit.
i doubt they will because they MIGHT ..might be dumb.
Ah, it’s just crapware!
Sun & Google join forces to bring you things you don’t want. (Google Toolbar when you asked for OpenOffice.org, and OpenOffice.org when you asked for Google Toolbar)
Fabulous! It worked for so many spyware companies before… why not Sun & Google?
Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far more likely that Sun and Google will find ways to promote both OpenOffice.org and Google Toolbar
Who are these supposed insiders? Isn’t the above exactly what the press release said all along? If your “knowledge of the joint plans” is 100% limited to the press statements, then you know it’s not just “far more likely” but 100% likely that Sun and Google are finding ways to promote OO and the Google Toolbar together – namely, by working out download bundling agreements involving OO and the Java JRE.
The Office suite rumors are obviously on top of what we already know. Whether those rumors are true or fale, what we already previously knew cannot in any way replace those rumors.
The sad part is, the Eweek writer is well aware of this, as RTFA makes clear. But I guess the lead paragraph wasn’t juicy enough without alluding to some new, secret information, so Eweek sexed it up. And then OSNews just repeated it, thanks to their braindead policy of just reprinting article leads as the description regardless of content.
Sun already has decent thin-client technology. They went out and bought one of the premier (read: Linux and Windows compatible) thin client platforms out there in Tarantella, which is good enough to be used over a 56K modem, and has been around for years.
Something’s afoot
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