Sun will now include the Google Toolbar as an option in the desktop version of its Java runtime environment. Google and Sun have also agreed to “explore opportunities to promote and enhance Sun ...

A conflict between free-software supporters and OpenOffice.org over the use of Suns proprietary implementation of Java in the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 is on its way to being resolved.

The popular open-source office suite OpenOffice.org is almost ready for the unveiling of its landmark 2.0 release, but it's creating foes because of its use of Sun's proprietary Java.

And Google will help distribute OpenOffice. Solaris, OpenOffice, Java, open-source software--is there anything in the partnership that isn't aimed directly at Microsoft? Not really.