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Photos: Sun-Google make a deal

Sun CEO Scott McNealy joins Google CEO Eric Schmidt on stage to announce their partnership
By Bill Detwiler, Contributor
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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.

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Vint Cerf (left), a pioneer 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.

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

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

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