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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.

      --
      Bradley Holt
  2. I don't get it... by IAAP · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Sun Microsystems Inc. also is joining the $7.5 million project at the University of California, Berkeley. The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems, or RAD, lab was scheduled to open Thursday and will dole out $1.5 million annually over five years, with each company contributing equally.

    That's chump change to Microsoft and Google (I don't know about SUN). Why aren't any one of them just funding the whole lab themselves? It's great that Berkely is getting some needed funding, but I think that this may some sort of PR thing. Just my 5 cents.

  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. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion