Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 19:13 UTC
Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt will sit down with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy on Tuesday morning to outline a collaborative effort between the two companies. It's not clear what the partnership will entail, but Sun has already begun to hype the event. More about this here.
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Member since:2005-07-06
#1 This could be something to do with the Liberty Alliance, which I believe was started at Sun.
I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense in light of the recent Google book scanning fiasco ( http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=1... ) Getting into DRM would be a logical step.
Come to think of it, Sun has been hyping up their DRM scheme lately with its open source "Project DReaM" (DRM/everywhere available.)
As a sidenote I hope someone bolted down the chairs in Redmond :-)
Member since:2005-09-22
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2005-09-22
#1 This could be something to do with the Liberty Alliance, which I believe was started at Sun.
#2 Google is increasingly prolific in desktop applications and web-based applications that have functionality previously reserved for client-side apps. Sun is releasing the next version of StarOffice/OpenOffice soon. Perhaps there will be some collaboration between the two.
#3 Could Google be moving to Solaris? I doubt it, but I may as well bring it up. If I'm not mistaken, Google originally ran on Sun hardware and software.