> > > Once again, quarterly revenue drop was due mostly to > one-off events. > And, as pointed out elsewhere, hardware revenue for > this market segment > is a significantly smaller chunk of total revenue > than for the x64 > market. That is, percentage wise, the total amount > spent on the > hardware for the UNIX market is significantly less vs > the x64 market. > For the UNIX market, you often see up to 10x the > hardware costs spent in > support, service, integration, additional software > stack, etc. You > don't get anywhere near that multiplier for x64 > systems, where hardware > costs are a *much* greater portion of the total > budget being spent. > Put another way: I'm better off selling (1) $500k > UNIX system than > (100) $10k x64 systems, because I'll almost certainly > be able to sell > $2m in service/software/etc for the UNIX system, > whereas I'll likely not > be able to sell more than $100-200k in add-ons for > the x64 gear.
I'm trying to understand, if this is great model then why didn't SUN focus only selling high end SPARC Units instead of trying to get into the X86 server market? maybe SUN would still around, Right? > > This isn't to minimize the damage that the Oracle > acquisition did to > Sun's server sales. It's been pretty horrendous. But > sales of the > Solaris ecosystem are a big part of being able to > recover from that, and > to suggest that Oracle dumping (Open)Solaris is a > good bet towards > increasing profitability faster is shortsighted and > frankly exhibits > considerable business market ignorance. > I was only suggesting Oracle has it's hands full at the moment to talk about OpenSolais roadmap, not about dumping it. -- > > -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
