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Strategies & Market Trends : YEEHAW CANDIDATES -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ACAN who wrote (12528)	10/4/2005 11:56:51 AM
From: Galirayo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23958

That's what I was thinking too Allan. The only way I can see it won't be is if it will be implemented immediately. Like .. it's already built / integrated and it hits the website ... ASAP. thestreet.com [snip] But with Google reaching its tentacles into numerous areas -- from its core Internet search advertising to most recently creating a WiFi network in San Francisco -- the possible activities that the Internet company could be undertaking with Sun are numerous. One possibility tossed around on message boards centered on Google distributing Sun desktop productivity StarOffice software. Such a joint venture would aim directly at Microsoft's (MSFT:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) dominance on the desktop, which Sun has been unable to dent. [more] And on Saturday, Sun Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz dedicated his blog to software distribution -- and some ominous-sounding pronouncements. Perhaps hinting at a big announcement between Sun and Google, Schwartz wrote, "If I were a betting man, I'd bet the world was about to change." And, Schwartz added that he would bet a recent decision by the commonwealth of Massachusetts to eventually replace Microsoft Office with open-source software "will be a shot heard 'round the world."