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If they only bought Sun when they had the chance, right?
by etse 6y ago
If they only bought Sun when they had the chance, right?
- vondur 6y agoI still can't understand why they didn't purchase them vs Oracle. Such a waste of tech that ended up under Oracle's purview vs Google.
- lostmsu 6y agoConsidering Google still has not produced a really popular language, and Oracle managed to revive Java, I would not be so sad about that. Of course in hindsight buying Sun would have been better for Google.
- searchableguy 6y ago> Considering Google still has not produced a really popular language What about go-lang and dart?
- javajosh 6y ago"really popular" is subjective, and Go is pretty popular, but it's not anywhere near Java. Dart is not popular.
- pjmlp 6y agoAlso what many keep forgeting is that Oracle was with Sun on Java since the early days, they were even the first RDMS to support Java for stored procedures and designed the Network Computer with JavaOS together with Sun. From my point of view, Google chose not to buy Sun because they hoped that Sun would just burn to the ground and as such, they would get away with the way they approached the whole situation. On the other hand if Google had bought Sun, we would still most likely be stuck with Java 6 and just runtime improvements, if at all. If Go and Dart are any examples to go for.
- sangnoir 6y agoWhy buy the cow when you can get the (goat) milk for free? Before Sun was up for sale, Google chose to base its not-Java™ implementation on Apache Harmony (incubated at IBM). There was no way of knowing the farmer who'd buy the cow would claim goat milk infringes cow-milk protein IP (apologies for stretching the metaphor beyond breaking)