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Imagine Google the cloud operator having to tread carefully not to get into political infighting with Google the SPARC manufacturer. Google had very good reason
by usrusr 11y ago
Imagine 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 11y 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 11y 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 11y agoI still find it a bit silly to think Google would have been menaced by infighting from one of their acquisitions.