Java didn’t drive Sun into bankruptcy. Developmental waste drove Sun into a position it needed to be bought out.
Our motto at Sun became “Bigger, Slower, hotter and more expensive” after the dot com boom/bust.
Plus there was very poor acquisitions that Sun made and some very good acquisitions that Sun didn’t make after the bubble burst.
Sun was a pioneer in cloud computing as it was being conceptualized, but by then the Money was being sucked up in the huge development costs of next gen enterprise systems that were architecturally inferior to the older generation.
Oracle losing this suit has more to do with politics, both national and internationally than intellectual property rights. Google simply has more to offer to governments than Oracle does. I think it’s 50-50 on appeal myself.
“I think it’s 50-50 on appeal myself.”
There’s tremendous precedent for reverse engineering implementations based on APIs. Linux and BSD for instance... It’d be disastrous for the tech industry and innovation if that weren’t the case.
This ruling was as it should have been, I seriously doubt that it’s overturned.
Yep. Dell and HP really ate Sun's lunch in the huge server space. It seemed to happen so fast.