Sun and Google today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world. The agreement aims to make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun's Java Runtime Environment, the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, helping millions of users worldwide to participate in the next wave of Internet growth. More here.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Comeon guys, let's see Google Toolbar for Solaris and Linux, lets see google chat/voip for the *NIX platforms.
More importantly, I need google earth on Solaris and Linux.
I'm watching the announcement live now, and I must say that this deal is rather... Vague. Erik of Google is very vague (as Google always is), Scot says a lot but, well, not with much content.
The Q&A sesssion I'm currently watching is much more interesting. However, I really cannot say if all this means that Google's apps are going to run on Linux/Solaris. Vagueness is the keyword here. When someone asked if all this was to replace Windows/MS Office, we got a brrage of buzzwords. When someone else asked to Erik of Google if they are working on an OS, he didn't say 'no', but instead he pointed to Scott and Jonathan Schwarz saying thet they're the OS guys.
Someone else asked if all this would mean that OO.o would turn into a webservice-- the short term answer was 'no', but Erik did say that in the future we might see office apps move to that direction.
Member since:2005-07-08
The Google Toolbar is already availible for firefox on windows and linux, and maybe even solaris.
http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/index.html
As for Google Talk, you can IM but not use voice. We'll see, they may expand later on. But likely not for solaris anytime soon. Solaris is hardly worth developing Google Talk for, it's not a desktop OS (yet).
http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
Member since:I think if they come out with GTalk for other platforms, it'll be on Mac and MAYBE Linux. Let's face it, most Linux users would rather use a standardized system. Argue about the merits all you want, but that's what the majority will do.
Google Talk is basically Jabber with voice, extra authentication, and a Google brand and server, anyway. Google hasn't done anything to undermine Mac and Linux usage; Notifier's out for mac, and they published Jabber client instructions.
Yahoo and Google Toolbars for Firefox work perfectly on Mac, Linux, and BeOS.
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I thought that there was going to be some earth shattering news but this is nothing more than Sun's going to distribute Google Toolbar - like as if I couldn't get it myself?
Comeon guys, let's see Google Toolbar for Solaris and Linux, lets see google chat/voip for the *NIX platforms.
More importantly, I need google earth on Solaris and Linux.