Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 17:54 UTC
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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2005-10-05
I believe this will be a very successful partnership.
On one side, you have Sun, one of the largest software companies in the world, with very powerful technologies (sun, solaris, open office), and that has a fairly large market share on the server side, but that just don't know how to do anything right on the client side.
The other company, Google, has a very strong knowledge of the client world, but just does not have the technology to go beyond web applications.
Google could try to create their own linux distribution, and fill up with free open source applications, but why do that, when you can team up with another company such as sun, that has many more resources available?
I really hope they come up with impressive solutions. From what google has shown so far, I'm pretty sure good pieces of software will show up soon.