Gartner Slams Sun/Google Non-announcement

Based on expectations driven by posts in Sun president/COO Jonathan Schwartz's blog online, analysis firm Gartner was not impressed by what was disclosed. On October 4, Sun and Google held their eagerly awaited press conference. Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage with Sun CEO Scott McNealy to reiterate what had been previously announced - the two companies would collaborate on technology like StarOffice; further, the Google Toolbar would be available as an option to downloaders of the Java Runtime Environment. At the time, the reporters in the room fell into stunned silence as the air was seemingly sucked from the room. A few attempts to gain some deeper meaning to the press conference, besides seeing Messrs. McNealy and Schmidt trade a Sun server and software for a Google-branded lava lamp, were brushed aside by the duo. Now, Gartner analysts have Gartner's analysts think a product like online word processor here