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I bet Larry and Sergey are thinking we should have bought SUN.

• TremendousJudge 9y ago
  that would've been pretty cool. they had that kind of capital back then, right?
  • qaq 9y ago
    I think market cap of Google was close to 200B the deal was valued something like 7.5.
• geodel 9y ago
  Why? At worst Google will pay a couple billion for losing API suit. Oracle's patent suit already went down the tube. And by the time Oracle wins Java will be even less relevant for both Google and Oracle. Considering Oracle's Java business is sinking. They already threw away JavaEE to Eclipse and Cloud infra is heading Go way. So instead of being hobbled by Sun JDK design decisions they worked on Dalvik and Java like paraphernalia. And big success of Android is partially due to that.
  • qaq 9y ago
    Patents/IP rights. Very strong team of eng. a lot of cool tech.
  • qaq 9y ago
    and Sun's campus is now prob worth most of the original sales price.