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They were bought by Oracle for salvage as an imploding shambles. If not Oracle, they would have ended up as SGI - merely a name for some white box vendor. The
by pinewurst 4y ago
They were bought by Oracle for salvage as an imploding shambles. If not Oracle, they would have ended up as SGI - merely a name for some white box vendor.
The problem here is the confusion between the wonder of late 80s workstation computing and the harsh realities after the Internet Boom.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoOracle's primary interest was suing Google over Java in that acquisition
- pjmlp 4y agoRegardless, Android Java should never had existed in first place, now we have Kotlin as Google's C#. Sun did not sue as they were already out of cash after Google screwed them over. Not only did Google contribute to Sun's downfall, they didn't even bother to buy Sun afterwards. They only have themselves to thank for the lawsuit.