Google Chrome OS and Canonical

<<In the interest of transparency, we should declare that Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract>>

<<While the two operating systems share some core components, Google Chrome OS will provide a very different experience to Ubuntu. Ubuntu will continue to be a general purpose OS running both web and native applications such as OpenOffice and will not require specialised hardware.>>

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=294

[Moved from "Canonical (Ubuntu) & Google are Working Together To Bring More Choice To The Consumer" – Tony]

"In the interest of transparency, we should declare that Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract. In our discussions, Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson made it clear that they want , wherever feasible, to build on existing components and tools from the open source community without unnecessary re-invention. This clear focus should benefit a wide variety of existing projects and we welcome it.

On the consumer side, people will ask about the positioning of Chrome OS and Ubuntu. While the two operating systems share some core components, Google Chrome OS will provide a very different experience to Ubuntu. Ubuntu will continue to be a general purpose OS running both web and native applications such as OpenOffice and will not require specialised hardware."

Source:http://blog.canonical.com/?p=294

opps sorry i did not notice that its already posted :(