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Making Sense of the Google-Sun Deal

Let me boil this down for you. Eric Schmidt, the titular CEO of Google, met with his old pal Scott McNealy, the panicky chairman of Sun Microsystems, to talk about hockey or California Cabernet or who-knows-what. One of the two, probably Scott, thought it would be cool to make some sort of joint announcement to either rattle the Microsoft cage or give the Sun stock some attention. So that's what they did. To me this is the biggest non-news story I've seen for maybe the past six months.

Read the whole story at MarketWatch, October 6, 2005 »

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