Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 09:10 PM EDT |
Ask Microsoft which has more value to their business.
Windows or C#
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 10:22 PM EDT |
Perhaps many of the "best" hardware people left because they were no
longer working for a hardware company.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 12:17 AM EDT |
The core business of Oracle is the database. Their top competitors (not in
terms of share/usage but in paying customers) are IBM and Microsoft. Java is a
key language for applications that front customers' Oracle databases. If the
java
language (and Sun) went to someone else, Oracle could be in a position
where
a key technology is in someone else's control. By bringing java into
their tent,
they gain full control in making sure that the language keeps up
with regards to
how it works with database related technologies they
sell. So, is java
worth a
significant part of 7.4 billion in a general
sense. No. But to certain people, such
as IBM or Oracle, its value may be
higher than market evaluation or a multiplier
of annual revenues because it is
very a important adjunct
to their core products and they'd be up a creek if
someone, such as Microsoft,
got it in order to kill it or give it to the
community and let competing interests
fracture it and make it irrelevant. This
looks like it's happening any way. The
mobile space is where the action is and
java isn't even allowed on one major
platform and is likely to be excluded from
Microsoft's wanna-be mobile os.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 02:15 AM EDT |
MySQL was the reason. Once Oracle owned it, they could corner the commercial
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Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 05:30 AM EDT |
Oracle are lying!
When you include this detail the whole argument becomes self-consistent.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT |
Ellison was nailed in cross on this, and I'm not even sure he realized
it.
Google: When you acquired Sun, wasn't the primary idea to
enter into the smartphone market?
Ellison: No.
[Comparing now with
the video deposition-- two apparent direct contradictions]
Ellison: Java
was a factor in the decision, not a primary motivation.
Google: TX 2042--
asks Ellison to identify it.
Ellison: It's an email that I wrote to Scott
McNealy.
Google: After Oracle agreed to buy Sun, proposing building a
smartphone based on Java.
Oracle stated that Java was the
primary value of Sun in their opening, didn't they? Ellison just stated that it
was a "factor", not a "primary motivation"
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