Sun and Google Team UP!

Sun and Google have last week agreed to work together on a multiyear contract. Though the exact details of the contracts have not yet been out, I guess that it’s Google that would benefit more from the contract. For a start Sun has agreed to distribute Google’s toolbar with JDK with a month. With thousands of downloads of JDK made each day, this would benefit Google for which it seems to compensate Sun with direct monetary benefits.
While both Sun and Google seem to be exited about the contract, not everyone is. By this move Google and Sun have sort of combined to stand up against Microsoft. For example while Sun’s JDK and their operating systems (Solaris) are a direct competitor to Microsoft’s .net architecture and Windows respectively. Now google’s toolbar adds on as a reply of msn messenger.
With this contract between Sun and Google I am not sure what would happen to the contract between Microsoft and Sun early last year…..