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I 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 ago
  Considering 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 ago
    Also 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.