Sun Microsystems is a Dud
Oracle has been a favorite for many years. It has made goodacquisitions over the past ten years. It has acquired BusinessIntelligence, CRM (through PeopleSoft) and has made countless othergood acquisitions.
Until now.
Sun Microsystems is simply not a good deal. JAVA is great, but whatis that worth? How does that add to revenue? It is free as an add-on,but there are competing environments from both Microsoft and Adobe.
* Revenue fell 20 percent to $2.61 billion in Sun’s fiscal thirdquarter ended March 29, compared with the average analyst forecast of$2.85 billion
* Computer sales dropped 29 percent to $1 billion
* Storage equipment sales fell 20 percent to $425 million.
* Software sales rose 27 percent to $187 million
* Services revenue fell 13 percent to $1.1 billion.
Check out these results from Sun. Awful.
Software sales don’t account for much of Sun’s earnings.
Team Oracle. Sun to Set with Acquisition
This is claimed by Oracle to be an acquisition of Java, but it is not.Sun Microsystems generates much of its revenue from hardware. Oracle isnow essentially adding competition for itself: it is entering thehardware space.
Shane posted some great links that needs to be re-iteraterated as a counter-argument:
How Oracle and Sun can get their act together:
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-New…
What Oracle-Sun means for Java, open source and RIAs
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-New…
Oracle as OEM: Behind a strategic shift
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-New…
I think that Oracle is getting into the open-source community andreally needs to tread carefully. OpenOffice and OpenSQL come to mind:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti…
http://www.informationweek.com/news/glob…
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