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IIRC IBM was in the play as well, but yes. I guess Google didn't want to inherit all the internal late-SUN problems so they passed on a chance to own it. Now Go

by bitL 6y ago

IIRC IBM was in the play as well, but yes. I guess Google didn't want to inherit all the internal late-SUN problems so they passed on a chance to own it. Now Google had to switch to an alternate strategy utilizing JetBrains for Android.

pjmlp 6y ago
IBM withdraw their proposal shortly after coming into the buy.
- bitL 6y ago
  IIRC SUN's revenues at that time were flat $16B, so they were in a zombie mode, likely could have survived for the next 10-20 years but the board gave up seeing all their competitors growing like crazy YoY.