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		varjag on Aug 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gai... Regardless of their goals, that Oracle found it suitable to throw Java into kamikaze attack on Google, shows how little they really value it.

zmmmmm on Aug 15, 2010 [–]

I think they value Java quite a lot. The frightening part is that they must value something else quite a lot more. For my money, it has to be that they want a stake in the mobile market - they've decided they can't sit by and let the future of computing pass them by. This is their way of getting in on the action.

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