For Google, It's Game On
By Dana Blankenhorn: Google's (GOOG) acquisition of Motorola is finally complete. While many analysts said when the deal was first announced that Google was just after patents, CEO Larry Page has in fact put together a new executive team for the unit, headed by Dennis Woodside, who managed the two companies' integration.Woodside's team is near the Googleplex, but not in it. The company promised to create a "firewall" between his group and Andy Rubin's Android team. But Woodside is hiring his own engineers to improve aspects of Android most upsetting to users - battery life, the handling of pictures. Etc.There are many skeptics of the decision. Simon Phipps, former head of open source at Sun [now part of Oracle (ORCL)], tweeted "copying Oracle?" And on the surface there are similarities. Both Motorola and Sun are hardware outfits. Both are former market leaders that have become laggards.But Sun was, and is,Complete Story »
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