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In 1996 Sun bought Lighthouse Design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design), a NeXT software house, a
by linguae 5y ago
In 1996 Sun bought Lighthouse Design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design), a NeXT software house, and then largely abandoned it when Sun went all in on Java. I don't think a Sun acquisition of NeXT (either just the technology or the entire company) would have went well for the future of NeXT given Sun's commitment to Java during the rest of the 1990's.