Google's partnership with Sun draws skeptical analysis

摘要

Google may be a media darling flush with cash, but any attempt on its part to muscle into productivity and collaborative applications will find the company in an underdog role it might not be ready to handle, according to IT professionals and other industry experts. Google last week laid out what many saw as an underwhelming partnership deal with Sun to distribute its toolbar with Sun's Java Runtime Environment software — a move that underscored Google's focus on finding more eyeballs to look at its advertising. The Sun partnership was seen as a dud because it came after days of red-hot hype suggesting that Google would add to its mail and instant-messaging services and begin offering over the Web Sun's Star-Office or open source OpenOffice.