OSNews > Thread > "Very bad news !" by boulabiar

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 11:53 UTC, submitted by tsedlmeyer

We've been debating the merits of a possible IBM-Sun deal for a while now, and even Sun itself seemed to be in the dark as to if it would be a good idea to be bought by IBM. These debates are now all moot: in a surprise move (at least, I didn't see any speculation about it) Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems, at USD 9.50 a share, which equates to a total of 7.4 billion USD. The news got out through a press release.

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Very bad news !

by boulabiar on Mon 20th Apr 2009 13:18 UTC

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2009-04-18

This is the worst news I ever heard about.

Why we don't see Google buying SUN and releasing everything as GPL ?

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RE: Very bad news !

by sbenitezb on Mon 20th Apr 2009 13:31 in reply to "Very bad news !"

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2005-07-22

Google is an internet services company. Not a hardware company, not a software company. All software it produces is totally geared to be used in the "cloud". It may not have any interest in hardware or server OS or desktop suite. Maybe in MySQL.

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RE[2]: Very bad news !

by boulabiar on Mon 20th Apr 2009 13:47 in reply to "RE: Very bad news !"

Member since:
2009-04-18

But Google maybe interested in
MySQL,
ZFS,
Java (to improvePython ?)
OpenSolaris (to improve his Linux ?)
Netbeans (To remake it to GWT Developer)

There was many technology in SUN to wonder it

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