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		bitL on Oct 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google and Oracle's decade-long copyright battle r... IIRC IBM was in the play as well, but yes. I guess Google didn't want to inherit all the internal late-SUN problems so they passed on a chance to own it. Now Google had to switch to an alternate strategy utilizing JetBrains for Android.

pjmlp on Oct 7, 2020 [–]

IBM withdraw their proposal shortly after coming into the buy.

bitL on Oct 7, 2020 | [–]

IIRC SUN's revenues at that time were flat $16B, so they were in a zombie mode, likely could have survived for the next 10-20 years but the board gave up seeing all their competitors growing like crazy YoY.

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