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Sun + Google = (Very) Bad News For Microsoft?

The Industry Guessing Game Has Begun; Will Computer History Be Made in the Computer History Museum?
By Jeremy Geelan
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October 4, 2005 03:15 AM EDT
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"Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt take the stage at the Computer History Museum on October 4 at 10:30 AM PT to discuss joint activities." That, in total, is the announcement currently up on the Sun web site.

What will they announce? The industry guessing naturally began immediately.

One clue may perhaps be found in the last blog entry from Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president, COO, and Blogger Extraordinary. Here it is in all its tantalizing, allusive glory:

"[V]alue is returning to the desktop applications, and not simply through Windows Vista. But in the form of applications that are network service platforms. From the obvious, to music sharing clients and development tools, there's a resurgence of interest in resident software that executes on your desktop, yet connects to network services. Without a browser. Like Skype. Or QNext. Or Google Earth. And Java? OpenOffice and StarOffice?

If I were a betting man, I'd bet the world was about to change."

At 10:30AM PT, we'll see if Schwartz wins the bet.

Published October 4, 2005 – Reads 25,468
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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