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Hindsight is 20/20, but Google would have been a lot better off purchasing Sun and all of its patents than Motorola at a $5 billion premium.

• jonknee 15y ago
  Buying Sun would only have helped Google in one of their current court cases (and not one that buying Motorola was intended to help). Hindsight would have dictated buying both.
• nkassis 15y ago
  yeah I've been saying this since the oracle deal. 8 billion looks small now for what Sun was. They would also own Java and other important tech that they could have used a lot more than what Motorola offers them. I wonder if they even tried to buy Sun.
• vimes 15y ago
  I don't think buying Sun would have protected Android from Apple/Microsoft/Nokia/etc., just as buying Motorola won't protect it from Oracle. If anything, buying both may have made sense.
• deleted 15y ago
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  • Jun8 15y ago
    "control over most US law-enforcement communication" No, that's the other Motorola, i.e. Motorola Solutions.
    • CamperBob 15y ago
      Ah, good point -- deleted.
• jshort 15y ago
  It may have been better then being out bought once again.