On Nov 14, 4:44 am, BoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe they should sell all of their assets, EXCEPT Java :) > And rename the company to Java, inc. > > BoD
If you look at the recent Q1/09 results (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/ investor/earnings_releases/Q109_SLD.pdf), total revenues were $2.99bln, and software revenues were $124mln or about 4% (the third- lowest result of the last nine quarters). From an investor's perspective, why wouldn't you close or sell off this "niche area" where you actually give the product away for free? Sun always argues that free software buys goodwill with developers which leads to more hardware and services sales. But it seems to me this is wrong on two levels: In medium and big companies at least, the operational guys define what kind of hardware and software they want, and then the procurement guys either pick a vendor after playing golf on the executive level or beating all vendors up on price. Neither the operational guys or the procurement guys could care less if developers feel all warm and fuzzy about Sun. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
