So, we now have a more detailed answer to the question “Why did Oracle buy Sun?”:
So now we know that Jonathan shopped Sun with a big “Sue Google” sign. So much for his visionary patent defense against Apple and of course this jewel
and, from James Gosling (“The father of the Java programming language”):
Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer’s eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun’s genetic code. Alas….
still plenty more here: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Aug-13.html
August 13, 2010, 1:46pm Comments
