MikeCooper

Why Oracle Bought Sun: It's Not About Hardware

Java's ubiquity is well known. But if leveraging that ubiquity was so easy Sun would have been the one buying Oracle. My guess is that in Sun, Larry simply saw a lot of state-of-the-art research, a diverse product portfolio ,and a patent library almost as big as IBMs on sale at a bargain price.

Larry likes a conquest. Developing business strategies are specific products (remember "unbreakable linux" ??!!) is not his forte.