When Sun first came out with Java, Corel immediately jumped on the bandwagon and embraced the new programming language like they wanted to be the first in line for the Second Coming. Corel spent months of work and millions of dollars trying to create an Office-like environment that would be cross-platform. Both Sun’s and Corel’s stock shot up, and media pundits predicted a showdown between Goliath and the two Davids.

Problem was, Java wasn’t nearly powerful or compact enough back then to get the job done right. The whole thing fizzled out and Corel made yet another right turn to focus on something else. (Like going bankrupt…)

Sun should have “challenge Microsoft to the ultimate showdown” in its Mission Statement. And now that Google is getting big enough to take up some space on the block too, it’s inevitable that Microsoft and Google will start to get in each other’s way. Microsoft has dozens of KO’s under its championship belt while Google may be the baby in “Honey I Blew Up the Kids” — lots of size, but not too wise in the ways of the world. If someone is going to collapse, sadly I think it will be Google.

Love to see something come out to at least rival Office, but if history is any indicator (and it usually is) Microsoft will come out of any “challenge” unscathed.

Create a company called SUoggle. Then will be bought by Oracle that can add a AJAX-injected Office Suite into their offerings..

So we would have a company Called OrOOGle which could then sell a database driven Ajax-infused office suite as a streroid infused front end to all their CRM/SRM applications (Siebel + PeopleSoft).

They can also then give everything away for free over the GoogleNet and then makes billions in profits from the “Thank You” notes from the people of SFO that they can sell on eBay..oops..shouldn’t ebay be in the mix too??

I can’t even smirk at this bubble…..

google saved NASA, now they want to save the SUN, next they will come down to buying EARTHlink, after that maybe come closer to home and save BUSH, as in GWB…

After all the hype Sun generated about the partnership it was going to announce yesterday with Google, the actual results were a bit of a let down. For the time being, we say Schmoogle. Slashdot reported earlier that Sun President Jonathan Schwartz cla…

Scott McNealy:
“We are going after revenue, growth, profits, customers…We are going afer the community…”

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Somewhere along the line during my fine public school/private college education, I was introduced the idea that human behavior patterns exhibit a remarkable similarity to the simple pendulum. First they swing one way, then the other. Want proof? Just t…

Don’t they all go away with Vista?

About 78 million individual users visit Google sites each month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings , so imagine how much new users will 20 million toolbar donwloads per month will bring to google!

Speculation on the big Google-Sun joint webcast today was mostly off-target, as the companies released rather tepid news: users downloading Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) would also be offered the Google Toolbar, and possibly vice-versa. Perhap…

So there was a lot of speculation about today’s Google / Sun Microsystem Announcement that this could lead to a direct challenge to Microsoft’s Office Suite… The Associated Press reports: The deal, whose terms were not disclosed, would make it…

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And while we’re visiting with Mr. Malik, I think he’s got the right take on the Google-Sun announcement: . . . as someone just said on the IM. “Lets do something useless so we can say we did something so…

google wants to continue making “hype” in the press, since they are running out of any “real” product announcements. All they can do now is announce some BS partnerships with companies that fail to deliver, build yet another wireless network that aims to provide nothing but spending avenue..

All in all, google has release some nice fancy web products that don’t make any fiscal sense currently and are probably going to run out of steam. $7 billion will buy nothin but Siebel as we learnt recently and that did not flutter Orcl’s stock.

Also, everyone is rich and fat at Goog now, and fat orgs don’t run fast and think slow…it’s showing!!!!