at 2:30 PM EST we will know!!!! Hopefully it will be something big!!

I sit hear more excited then when the clocks ticked over to Y2k. I keep watching the clock in anticipation of the shot that's going to be heard around the world and even more so at Microsoft. Times are a changing.... see if Bill will be rich man number one for 12 years in a row, the heat is getting hot over there. Competition is gaining steam from all ends. All empires eventually fall, Egyptian, Roman, British, American, and now Microsoft.

Google and Sun = Goodbye Microsoft :P

I wonder what is going on on Bill Gates' mind at this very moment.....or even better Steve Ballmer.

All I know is...

The chairs, they are a flyin'.

Google & Sun are to announce an Office Suite based on OpenOffice:

http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0285/

Not to confirm nor deny. I cannot verify the reliability of this blog's author.

Slashdot has a post about this already:

http://slashdot.org/arti.../04/1234229&tid=102

Google Search -> GMail -> Google Dektop2 -> Gtalk -> Google Office -> Google OS.

Just you wait. They've got the brand recognition, and Sun's intense hatred of MS, to fight most of the FUD MS will spew. They might actually be able to get this Office thing off the ground. If so, it isn't much of a stretch to see the connections.

Eventually, with Google Desktop, GMail, GTalk, and Google Office, it will be virtually impossible to tell what OS a person is using based on the desktop. Since most folks see the "Desktop" as the OS, Google could very easily allow folks to "Upgrade" to get rid of whatever buggy, insecure OS they are using.

Not saying I'd jump on it, but I can definately see them taking this route now with the Sun partnership and Google Office taking shape.

If nothing else, it will give MS something more to worry about. In fact, that may be all it's about. Let's keep Bill and Steve nervous.

TOO BIG MAN... TOO BIG

Try turning your caps-lock off, your typing won't be too big then.

"Google Office" based on StarOffice 8 / OpenOffice.org!!?

or "Google OS" based on Solaris / Sun Java Desktop?!!

or Google starts to sell G-servers?!!

or Google to use Sun-servers as backbone for its Google Wifi.. ?!!

or Google partners with Sun to explore the Universe!!

Google already sells G-servers...though by another name: The Google Search Appliance

Found here: http://www.google.com/enterprise/

Google Office has been rumored forever. Might just now start being feasible (wide-spread Broadband, Google's fast servers...etc). It would *not* be based on any existing office suite, but reside entirely online (Think Outlook 2003 functions in GMail/GCalendar).

A "Google OS" would likely be based on a free OS such as Linux, or an open-sourced Solaris, but would fail miserably if launched soon, IMO. We'd need a hell of a lot more Gooogle Desktop/Google Office before folks would be willing to jump the MS ship for GoogleOS. again, most of the components (Applications) would be web-based.

Oh, you were joking? Heh..heh....

i jus found sth interestin.. it gives hints to whatz gonna happen tmr..?!

http://blogs.sun.com/rol...world_changes_this_week

Ramblings of someone who can not/will not say what he thinks, and ends up saying absolutely nothing in a huge waste of time for anyone silly enough to read it.

I'm not saying something isn't up, I'm just saying that due to either NDA or lack of knowledge, you'll get no closer to finding it by reading this guys blog entry.

Google already has a partner to explorer the universe (NASA)

so the rumor is truE?!

haha c|net is quotin his "ramblings", and speculatin the partnership would probably be "Google Office" based on OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, server-driven

http://news.com.com/Goog...7923.html?tag=nefd.lede

We'll see soon enough.

Well, let's see...

All your personal information, a ton of dark fibre, NASA in their pocket, and now Sun.

Could it be that they're...

...Nah, it'd never happen.

just watch out for two lab mice or a little baby called stewie....

Lab mice... Would that be Pinky and the Brain, or the lab mice from HGTTG?

I can see a revolution starting here. Here are a few facts to roll around in your head.

1. SUN has openoffice.
2. Google has the internet under total control
3. SUN has been pushing thin clients for years and there is no end in site.
4. Google has been buying up all of dark fiber it can get it's hands on.
5. Google in starting wifi internet and VOIP.
6. Google has Gmail.

People have been talking about a 100 dollar pc for years now. Could this be the beginning? Thin clients based on the google internet explorer with there gmail and with sun's servers and there openoffice suite. It's all coming together. hmmm... I wonder? FREE PC'S for every man, women and child in the world. SEE YA, Microsoft :(

I'd say that's a little far-fetched for right now, but then again, I also said Apple would never go Intel, so...

"Lab mice... Would that be Pinky and the Brain"

I KNEW those two were up to something ...
NOW I realize .... :)

> Could this be the beginning?
> Thin clients >based on the google
> internet >explorer with there gmail and with > sun's servers and there openoffice suite.

You're close, but not exactly.
Google will surely develop its Office as an online application, like Gmail, with intensive use of ajax. Something like this: http://www.writely.com/