Been there, done that. Google and Sun announced a collaborative venture to bang heads with Microsoft on office software. Sheesh. The reason why Sun has no impact with office software is because after years of development it still isn't very good. It's almost as if it's inherent in Silicon Valley corporate DNA - that local software workers are pre-destined to form into yet another group with grand ambitions that somehow involve confronting Microsoft. Yeah, I suppose that's kinda' what they do around here...

Then I see in today's news headlines - 'Netscape to Partner with HP'. Wow. This is like deja vu all over again. Seems that HP is going to include the Netscape browser with all it's PC's. These days the Netscape browser is just a bunch of AOL 'subscriber hooks' on top of last year's mozilla browser. It's hardly relevant.