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		rortian on April 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: James Gosling leaves Oracle Talks didn't break down, there were big anti-trust issues.

hga on April 11, 2010 [–]

As I recall didn't the Sun board say the price was too low?

rortian on April 11, 2010 | [–]

Nope, there were serious legal issues.

Edit: Just to be clear, these two firms would essentially own the mainframe market (sure IBM does pretty much already but that doesn't mean you let the acquire more market share)

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