Its been all over. Google and Sun shaking hands on more than what meets the eye. My feelings are that all the talk about Sun hardware and the Google toolbar being packaged with JRE is all crap. Google and StarOffice/OpenOffice.org tie-up makes sense given the speculations that Google may be soon coming up with a webified suite of applications. Seeing the types of Zimbra, that boasts a online collaboration suite, its only a matter of time as Google brings OpenOffice to a web-based reality.
Adding to all the speculations, it just occured to me that the tie-up between Google and Sun may well be a long-term step to bring the WebOS ideas to reality. If Google is fighting MS to look at Web as the OS, it may well be looking at Sun's utility computing initiative to provide the computational power needed for its applications (more than just calendar, word-processing etc.) hosted on its web. Given the spread of Google in areas ranging from VoIP, GoogleTV, Google Wi-Fi, it sure is dreaming big. And Web is the turf that Google can out-play MS on.
After all, Google and Sun share the vision of making the Web your computer.
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