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I always thought Sun would have been a good cultural fit for Google.

• jeffbee 5y ago
  Quite a bit of Sun software engineering ended up at Google so you're not wrong. Especially after Oracle shut down all Sun software development and laid everyone off in 2017 there was a huge wave of referral hiring.
• invalidname 5y ago
  Eric Schmidt was the CTO of Sun for a while and brought that culture to Google. I see a lot of the problems Sun had in Google and IMHO it's about to collapse under its own weight and lack of focus.
• hulitu 5y ago
  Taking into account the elegance of SUN OS and Solaris compared with Android and the usability of OpenLook compared to Android GUI, i would doubt it.
• mcv 5y ago
  A lot of people at the time thought Google should have bought Sun. Google was heavily involved in Java at the time (with Dalvik especially), and got in a lot of trouble with Oracle when they bought Sun.
• cestith 5y ago
  I really wish Compaq after buying DEC would have bought Sun, BeOS, and Apple rather than get acquired by HP.