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by: The New Wall Street March 16, 2006 | about: GOOG / JAVA    
A rumor that has been surfacing around the web the past week of an imminent sale of Sun Microsystems to Google. Whether or not there is any truth to these rumors, I don’t know, but for the sake of Google shareholders, I certainly hope not.

Google is a Marketing Technology company. With 99% of revenues coming from their Adwords and Adsense programs, this is hard to argue. Sun Microsystems on the other hand, is a hardware/software company, revolving almost entirely around their “platform

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    Google would be nuts to buy Sun. They are in very different businesses, and Sun can't work out how to make money for the life of them. They have a platform like Java, and IBM makes all of the money from it.

    They open source their app server, and it is hardly used (I know they claim lots of downloads). They put a lot of effort into Apache Tomcat and don't get credit for it. Open sourcing Solaris? Just a few years too late.

    Ouch.
    2006 Mar 16 03:27 PM | Link | Reply
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