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I always wondered why it was sold to Oracle.

• trollbridge 2y ago
  A fire sale where Oracle got IP they could figure out how to make money off of. IBM should have bought Sun, or at least Java; it was a much more natural fit.
  • crmd 2y ago
    I was there. IBM tried to buy Sun. Lawyers said no.
    • TMWNN 2y ago
      Whose lawyers? IBM's, or Sun's? And why?
      • crmd 2y ago
        IBM. Regulatory risk issue.
  • matt_heimer 2y ago
    Given that IBM has turned Redhat Linux into the next Solaris after what they did to CentOS, I'm not sure that Java would have been better with IBM. At least Java has been getting updates and things still get released under OpenJDK.
  • sys_64738 2y ago
    IBM would have killed the hardware immediately. They wanted JAVA not the HW.