Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Mar 2006 18:23 UTC, submitted by nedeljko visnjic
Talk of an imminent sale of Sun to Google has been swirling around trading floors and Silicon Valley for more than a week. Shares of Sun, which has a partnership with Google to develop and distribute each other's technology, spiked up about 4 percent last week as a result of the rumors. The speculation got even more legs after Google purchased Writely, a maker of a web-based word processor that some people viewed as a product to be added to Sun's StarOffice suite, which Google may help distribute. It's also convenient that Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, is the former chief technology officer of Sun.
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Your entire comment would fly completely in the face of how Google works. They don't want 25,000 bright workers, they put everyone through 10 interviews because they only want the smartest people available. If anyone in any of the 10 interviews isn't sure of you, you don't get hired. Google doesn't want centralized storage, they went and designed and implemented their own file system to handle redundancy everywhere. Why then go and put a single point of failure into it? And the idea of backing up much less restoring petabytes of data (yes, I said petabytes) is comical at best. Google already employs a good percentage of the smartest computer scientists in the world. They've already built one of the biggest computing clusters in the world. What does Sun offer them?
Considering Sun's track record, I'd say it would be like Google committing suicide trying to buy and integrate Sun.