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Photos: Sun, Google execs outline partnership

By // July 18, 2006, 8:44 AM PST // billdetwiler

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  • Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, left, joins Google CEO Eric Schmidt to detail a software and hardware partnership between the companies.

    Stephen Shankland

  • Sun President Jonathan Schwartz answers questions as McNealy, center, and Schmidt look on. Schmidt worked at Sun for 14 years and was previously its chief technology officer.

    Stephen Shankland

  • Under the deal announced Tuesday, Google will expand its purchasing of Sun servers. Here, McNealy, left, and Andy Bechtolsheim, center, present a Sun Galaxy X4100 server to Google's Schmidt. Bechtolsheim, a Sun co-founder, led the Galaxy design team and was one of two initial Google investors.

    Stephen Shankland

  • Vint Cerf (left), a founder of the Internet who joined Google earlier this year, chats with audience members at a news conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

    Stephen Shankland

Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, left, joins Google CEO Eric Schmidt to detail a software and hardware partnership between the companies.

Stephen Shankland

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