Is this the end of the world as we know it, as some are predicting?
John Paczkowski from SiliconValley.com spells out a possible Redmond reaction:
I don't know about the world, but if Sun and Google do uncrate an office productivity solution -- say a Sun Ray ultra-thin client optimized to run "Google Office" -- that shot will definitely be heard up in Redmond, along with a lot of expletives and an anguished scream or two. Because if anyone can shift personal computing out of Microsoft's domain and into the open, it's Google.

I should have seen this coming, after seeing McNealy’s speech at Oracle Openworld. Looking back on that speech, McNealy was pointing in this direction throughout. Networked appliances, thin computers, the network the network the network. Mind you, I have seen this all before. Sun rays have been around for a long time, but now Sun is serious, and has the mindshare to back it up in Google.

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