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As a young developer, I always wondered why Google didn't buy Java from Sun. Wouldn't it be a strategic buy?


Not sure what to make of that, but I'm just glad we don't live in a world in which Google + Java is the winning horse


cough Android coughh

+2.5 billion Google Android devices running their apps overwhelmingly in Java.

Wasn't a coincidence this was chosen that way.


google is literally the next generation Sun, many of the same people were involved.. the Sun Micro company was scrapped for (valuable) parts, with a lot of internal competitive moments


Google wasn't a big player when Oracle bought sun. Don't ever underestimate them. There is a reason Oracle of all companies is the government's pick to annex Tiktoc.




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