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Google's Google Toolbar, Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment, and Microsoft MSN are highlighted in a discussion of Sun's and Googles partnership, which will allow the companies to cross-promote and distribute their software. Sun described plans to offer the Google Toolbar as an optional download with the Java Runtime Environment, which is downloaded 20 million times each month. The result could be the use of the Google Toolbar on millions more Windows PCs. Google has committed to exploration of opportunities for promotion and enhancement of Sun's technologies, including Java Runtime Environment and the OpenOffice.org application suite, which is marketed by Sun as StarOffice. The companies will conduct joint engineering, and, in the announcement, there was a strong sense that Google will, in the future, begin distribution of OpenOffice. Google might integrate its search functionality and links to an online dictionary directly into OpenOffice, say some with knowledge of the deal. The basic market momentum the companies have is very extensive. Ray Ozzie, CTO of Microsoft, stated in an interview that Microsoft will speed up delivery of software abilities over the Web. Among other topics covered are Microsoft's reorganization into three new business divisions, expectation that Microsoft's position will be hurt, and Google' plans for development of a million square feet of office space on NASA property. On the property, Google will develop data management and distributed computing technologies and also experiment with technologies that combine biotechnology, nanotechnology, and IT.
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