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.

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.

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.