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It was a grave blunder for Google not to buy Sun. Besides Java, they would have gotten MySQL, ZFS and some hardware that would all be useful at Google.
by cft 10y ago
It was a grave blunder for Google not to buy Sun. Besides Java, they would have gotten MySQL, ZFS and some hardware that would all be useful at Google.
- usrusr 10y agoImagine Google the cloud operator having to tread carefully not to get into political infighting with Google the SPARC manufacturer. Google had very good reasons to stay clear of those recipes for disaster. They could have still done a "Motorola" with Sun, but that's hindsight speaking.
- spacemanmatt 10y agoPish. Oracle didn't buy Sun for SPARC any more than Google would have. I don't hear anything about SPARC infighting at Oracle.
- usrusr 10y agoSure. But introducing a hardware division into an organization that did not have one before can not only be useless, it can be harmful. Oracle has much less direct investment in datacenter operation that could suffer from unwanted influence of in-house hardware than Google.
- spacemanmatt 10y agoI still find it a bit silly to think Google would have been menaced by infighting from one of their acquisitions.