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Java is used in a great many places other than Android. Google most certainly did not kill Sun.
by tensor 12y ago
Java is used in a great many places other than Android. Google most certainly did not kill Sun.
- Shebanator 12y agoCheap and good Linux servers did far more to kill Sun than anything anyone did w.r.t. Java.
- bsdetector 12y agoAn analyst came up with a $250 million annually for Java licenses. Andy Rubin said (exhibit 13) that "Sun is prepared to walk away from a $100M annual J2ME licensing business" into a deal with Google for some portion of Android income, which obviously is not an exact but indicates the scale. Java wasn't going to power a Sun-sized company by itself, but having this income dry up while already trying to save the company from linux is a death blow.