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An interesting article on the last press conference about the collaboration between Google and Sun.
GOOGLE PR MACHINE MARCHES ON
When it comes to the press, Google has it made in the shade.
While our last two presidents, George and Bill, had to scrap
for a single bit of good press (Fox News and Al Franken notably
excepted), Google just rakes in the raves. And with every tiny
step it takes, the mindless press declares that Eric Schmidt
has Bill Gates in the ropes and is pummeling wildly.
This week Google announced a deal to distribute Sun's Java
Virtual Machine and to help distribute OpenOffice, the open
source productivity suite. Somehow this is a revolution, and
Windows and Office are suddenly toast.
Get real, people. Sun will give a Java contract to anyone with
a ballpoint pen, and OpenOffice, is, well, open source. Where
is the breakthrough in making it available, or even building on
top of it? Google didn't write it -- all it's doing is glomming
on to something built long ago.
The deal was big on fuzz and small on details, but Sun did
agree to offer the Google toolbar as part of the Java runtime.
For this you call a press conference?
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