| > ...they'd drop their case/claims as quickly as they could!
That's
right! And obviously they know that.
I think that there is more to this
trial than meets the eye. I think it's
because Oracle have been upset that
they
have not been able to make much money from Google since they're smart
enough to work around and or
develop their own solutions. Google uses some
Oracle technology and
Google is a very much NIH kind of
company so when they
can, they dump third party software for their own
solutions or less expensive
ones.
In my past dealings with Oracle, they have been fast, loose and
arrogant.
Not the kind of company that makes
me feel I can depend on and the
kind of company that would squeeze a deal
by going around the decision
makers.
So, this smells to me like Page calling Ellison's bluff. Ellison
didn't see
just how much egg he was going to get
all over Oracle. Seriously,
who would ever want to deal with a company like
Oracle now when they must have
spent at least north of$20mil each on this case. It's seems like a
childish tit
for tat game. I think Page actually
made a generous offer to
settle compared to the crumbs that Oracle is likely
to never see because the
appeal
process will probably cost Oracle far more than they will ever get on
appeal.
So there you are, Sun knew that had no case (according to JS). They
played nice and Java became relevant again.
But Oracle decided to kill the
golden goose because no sane executive will
ever want to deal with Oracle ever
again.
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