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Consider Google bought Motorola for $12.5B[1] and Oracle bought Sun for $5.6 billion[2], I would think Google buying Sun would have been a better deal than buyi

• bitmapbrother 11y ago
  Perhaps, but it's not like Google lost much by buying Motorola. "I think the Motorola transaction has been a success for us. Financially, we bought the asset for $12.5 billion. It had $3 billion in cash; we were able to sell the Home division for $2.5 billion; we ended selling the handset division for $3 billion. There were some other tax assets as well. When you work through the math, you realize we spent between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion for the patent assets. At the time, the nearest comparable transaction was the Nortel patent auction where Microsoft and Apple teamed up to buy that asset for $4.5 billion. And there’s a good argument that the Motorola patent portfolio is a better portfolio."
  • robotresearcher 11y ago
    Nice informative quote is missing an attribution. Google finds it in an interview in Forbes with Dan Harrison, Google's head of M&A.