Google & Sun Team Up! (Link)

A press conference was held today by Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy and Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Google Inc. today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world. The agreement aims to make it easier for users to freely obtain Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE), the Google Toolbar and the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, helping millions of users worldwide to participate in the next wave of Internet growth.

Interesting enough, Just after announcing the decision of holding this press conference both Google’s and Sun’s shares went up. Sun’s shares rose 26 cents, to $4.19 and the shares of Google raised $2.22 to $318.68.