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Google, Microsoft, Sun to Fund New Internet Lab

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-totally-rad dept.

brajesh writes "Yahoo! News has an AP story about Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems coming together to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems or RAD lab is scheduled to open Thursday and will dole out $1.5 million annually over five years, with each company contributing equally. From the article : 'Conceivably, the lab's services could help launch another revolutionary company like online auctioneer eBay Inc. or even Google, which has emerged as one of the world's most valuable companies just seven years after its inception in a Silicon Valley garage.'"

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  1. they will research quantum superposition... by free+space · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... and the lab will be evil and not evil in the same time!

    1. Re:they will research quantum superposition... by mysqlrocks · · Score: 5, Funny

      .... and the lab will be evil and not evil in the same time!

      No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. Quantum mechanics says that they will be neither evil nor not evil until it observed that they are either evil or not evil. This post neither exists nor not exists until you observe it.

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    2. Re:they will research quantum superposition... by jaygatsby27 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am sorry, but the evil or not evil can not be confirmed until we kill the evil or the cat or set the box on fire. I can't recall which.

    3. Re:they will research quantum superposition... by imunfair · · Score: 2, Funny

      This post neither exists nor not exists until you observe it.

      *This post neither exists nor does not exist until you moderate it.

    4. Re:they will research quantum superposition... by free+space · · Score: 2, Funny

      This post neither exists nor not exists until you observe it.

      What post?

    5. Re:they will research quantum superposition... by BodhiCat · · Score: 2, Funny

      So it is purple?

      The cypress tree in the garden.

  2. Did I just read that right? by tod_miller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun, Google and Microsoft... in bed?

    Hahhaha, next thing apple with bring out intel based macs... oh you editors you really get me going. hahah.

    Imagine how many chair throwing tantrums there will be...

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  3. and the first product is by free+space · · Score: 5, Funny

    a desktop search tool that runs on all platforms, but crashes every 5 minutes.
    * ducks *

  4. Google, Microsoft and Sun? by jdfox · · Score: 1, Funny

    Egad! An Axis of Evil!

  5. Chairs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Will Google be asking for the chairs to be screwed to the floor in this new lab?

  6. Google, Microsoft, and Sun teaming up......... by m93 · · Score: 2, Funny

    all we need now are four horsemen, and a Babylonian whore, and we've got us the Apocalypse!

  7. Lab's organization by patcito · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google: set up a creative environment to help developping new ideas
    Microsoft: copy those ideas and implement them in their upcomming OS
    Sun: rewrite them in Java and release them as Open Source ten years later

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  8. I would love to start a project in my garage... by zaphle · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... But I can't afford a house with a garage.

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