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After months of discussion here and elsewhere I still don't understand why Oracle is doing this. Google IS making money off of Android but Java and Java APIs ar
by binarray2000 14y ago
After months of discussion here and elsewhere I still don't understand why Oracle is doing this. Google IS making money off of Android but Java and Java APIs are one part of the whole package (Linux being the other). Google is no threat to Oracle (almost no product portfolio overlapping). On the contrary Google diminished Microsoft's influence in the mobile market and works towards doing the same with the browser (Chrome), Office (Google Docs) and OS (Google OS).
And MS is Oracle's (OK... Larry's :) ) arch rival no.1.
Why is Oracle fighting Google and wants to get a few hundreds of millions (which is not much for the company that big) when they could let Google go its thing and watch how MS gets weaker due to that?
- blinkingled 14y agoLarry and Jobs were close friends - Larry threatened a hostile takeover of Apple back in the day if they did not bring Jobs back. Perhaps that is one reason - to make Android less attractive in the marketplace.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoHeck, Jobs put him on the board (to a crowd with some people booing) when he came back to Apple.
- protomyth 14y agoOracle wants the licensing money because if they give Google a free pass then certain other players will want a free pass (e.g. IBM). HP is a bigger target for Oracle than Microsoft is and I get the feeling that Oracle views Google as an upcoming threat.