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**Al-Fares** · 05 octobre 2005, 06h19

Google et Sun....une alliance pour la distribution software

Google et Sun vont s'échangent leurs technologies. L'accord a été conclu entre les deux géants et hier apres une rencontre tres médiatisé.

Google va désormais 'intégrer dans ses produits et meme améliorer les produits Java pour Windows et la suite la suite bureautique StarOffice.
Google va intégrer Java dans sa toolbar.

Sun, va aussi integrer les produits google sur quelques uns de ses produits comme la Google Toolbar par exemple

On peut s'attendre aussi au developement d'un produit commun entre les deux.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc. will promote Sun Microsystems Inc.'s word processing and office software products in an alliance announced on Tuesday that could mark a first step toward challenging Microsoft Corp's dominance of the computer users' desktops.

Computer maker Sun and Web search company Google gave few details, saying they would jointly promote OpenOffice, Sun's free office productivity software that competes with Microsoft's Office suite of software, and Sun's Java software platform, which runs thousands of PC programs.

"Is this a threat to Microsoft? Not today," said Roger Kay, president of market research firm Endpoint Technology Associates. "But mammals weren't a threat either when dinosaurs were kings of the earth."

Sun will include the Google Toolbar for Web searches as an option when consumers download Java for the desktop (http://java.com). A Sun spokesman said that Google will pay Sun for each download of Java desktop containing the Google toolbar, declining to name that amount.

At the news conference in Silicon Valley featuring the chiefs of both companies, Sun and Google outlined a vision of working together to build the next generation of the Internet, but they gave few details.

Google also was vague on details of how it might use Sun software in its products, with CEO Eric Schmidt saying simply, "This is a very significant deal."

Java is a software platform that runs many programs but sits on top of different operating systems, from Linux to Windows, making it a potential technological uniter.

Some 700 million computers worldwide run Java programs -- but Sun has had little success commercializing its products to this vast audience. The test of the new relationship will be how far Google, with hundreds of millions of active Web users, goes to promote Sun products.

Java also runs on hundreds of millions of mobile phones, which are seen as the next frontier for competition among major technology companies.

"I think it's a pretty natural partnership here," said Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Microsystems.

At one time, Java was a potent threat to Microsoft's Windows operating system, but since Sun and Microsoft settled all their outstanding lawsuits against each other and agreed to cooperate, the two firms are now more selective in the arenas in which they compete.

la suite de l'article de Reuter

**nassim** · 05 octobre 2005, 22h54

Cette alliance entre Google et Sun est une très mauvaise nouvelle pour Microsoft. Steve Ballmer doit se dire : "Mais qu'est ce qu'ils ont à me chercher tout le temps ? Je vais les tuer!"

Même si Schmidt (patron de Google et ancien employé de Sun) et McNealy (patron de Sun) ne l'ont pas explicitement avoués, il semblerait que le but final de cette alliance est de s'attaquer au monopole de Microsoft dans les applications PC et les serveurs. Le but étant de profiter de la popularité de Google qui hébergera et proposera les applications Sun. Les utilisateurs auront ainsi le choix : ils pourront louer un temps d'utilisation d'une application directement sur Internet (chez Google & Sun). Plus besoin d'acheter le logiciel et l'installer sur le PC.

C'est en quelque sorte la consécration de la vision de Sun : "The Network Is The Computer".

Merci pour lien de la vidéo, Djanoub.

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Google et Sun...une alliance?

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