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Although Oracle denied they bought Sun just to sue Google you have to wonder since they are claiming "billions" in damages and only paid $7.4 billion after IBM
by technofiend 10y ago
Although Oracle denied they bought Sun just to sue Google you have to wonder since they are claiming "billions" in damages and only paid $7.4 billion after IBM dropped their $7.0 billion bid.
This purchase was such a seminal moment for the industry you have to wonder what an alternative history would look like if say IBM or Google made the purchase not to mention some dark horses like Amazon or Red hat.
- snarf21 10y agoThey absolutely bought Sun just to sue. I used to know someone personally involved on the case. Oracle is a horrible company. To be fair, Google's "don't be evil" is also a bunch of crap. They've done their fair share of shady and exploitive things.
- apathy 10y agoGoogle wasn't evil, at least not before the IPO (which is when I worked there). People took the slogan seriously and based decisions on it. I don't know what happened.
- Teever 10y agoThe people that intended to do evil merely waited until those who didn't intend to do so finished implementing the things they were implementing. Then they used that sound infrastructure to do evil with, as they had intended to do all along. Those people that took the slogan seriously were used.
- rifung 10y agoThose are very damning accusations. Care to give some examples?
- shard972 10y agoI think Google's quiet transformation from a search company to a data company that is trying to learn everything about everyone is the prime example. Google buzz was also one of the early moves that showed this, opting everyone who uses gmail into a social network was pretty evil if you ask me.
- teen 10y agolike what?
- technofiend 10y agoI meant dark horse only in the sense of unlikely winner. Nothing derogatory was meant by my statement.