[baguasquirrel]

I can't shake the feeling that it's because they didn't want to play the bad guy. Sun was hemorrhaging money. Layoffs were going to have to happen.

[markokocic]

Either that, or they were not sure that they could affort to outbid Oracle?

The fact is that Oracle can make much more money from Sun aquisition than Google ever could. And part of that moneymaking include suing everyone else.