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Google should have acquired Sun instead of buying dropcam/boston-dynamics/motorola and such.
by ausjke 11y ago
Google should have acquired Sun instead of buying dropcam/boston-dynamics/motorola and such.
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- godzillabrennus 11y agoHow amazing would that have been? Zfs might have helped the world move forward a lot faster... Sigh... Let's give Oracle 10 years from now to fade from relevance as yet another fucked by cloud vendor and Google can then orchestrate a hostile takeover.
- ausjke 11y agoTo speed that up, just buy Postgresql and use that to smother both Oracle DB and to some extent, mysql. Defence only helps that much, offence can do it a lot faster on their own DB territory.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoBetter yet, buy EnterpriseDB that's actively targeting Oracle's market. Put a bunch of money into expanding it with conversion tools from Oracle to not Oracle API's it will use.
- russellbeattie 11y agoGiven how much Google owed Sun in terms of technology and employees pulled from Sun over the years, I always thought not buying the company was an especially cynical move. Sort of like, "Ha! We got all their stuff for free and now they're gone! We win!" Payback's a bitch - though in this case it's not just going to be Google that pays. Oracle is vicious.