"Now that the dust has settled on Sun Microsystems' 'collaboration' with marquee customer du jour Google, the verdict is in. Investors got all worked up over nothing," reports Forbes.
"The broad consensus is that the deal announced between Sun and Google will have little or no impact on Sun in the near- or mid-term, and little impact on Microsoft. Further, many Wall Street analysts agree that the long-term financial benefit to Sun from the software collaboration is questionable."
Comment: That the hype was "overblown" seems to have been the standard response in the blogosphere, but at least the mainstream press is starting to catch up....
