Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd May 2008 20:44 UTC, submitted by Moochman
Engadget got the chance to sit down with Jonathan Schwartz, the pony-tailed CEO of Sun Microsystems. Being the gadget blog that they are, Engadget asked Schwartz about the long-missing JavaFX Mobile platform Sun has promised, Java on the iPhone, and competing with Microsoft as an open source vendor.
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You've just described the point of why I posted that article (growth of shipments). It illustrates the point within the context of this thread:
Sun are funding an entire hardware platform that was totally outgrown and outperformed both in growth and overall revenue by their x86 business, and what they ship each quarter.
Don't backpedal. Your statement was that about 3/4th of sun's sales came from x86 systems and SPARC was dwindling and dead weight.
SPARC sales are declining. x86 is just taking up more of the whole, and they're accounting for close to all of the growth, if any, that Sun gets each quarter.
Not what the data says. Seriously, give up already.
Sun simply can't afford to hang on to that and expect to compete with their own x86 servers that they sell either in terms of growth, revenue, margins or the costs that they incur.
They are not competing with thier own servers anymore than IBM and HP are. Why on earth would HP publish a Xeon result as a cream of the crop for SpecWeb2005 when it sells PA-RISC and itanium boxes.
Their SPARC business is going to continue to decline unless they can put SPARC where IBM's Power is or pull their fingers out and give SPARC the raw power of x86 to attract people. Neither looks likely.
See above at how stupid that sounds. The UltraSPARC T2 handily outperforms Power bases systems in web services at a fraction of the cost.
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2005-07-06
You've just described the point of why I posted that article (growth of shipments). It illustrates the point within the context of this thread:
Sun are funding an entire hardware platform that was totally outgrown and outperformed both in growth and overall revenue by their x86 business, and what they ship each quarter.
SPARC sales are declining. x86 is just taking up more of the whole, and they're accounting for close to all of the growth, if any, that Sun gets each quarter.
Sun simply can't afford to hang on to that and expect to compete with their own x86 servers that they sell either in terms of growth, revenue, margins or the costs that they incur.
Their SPARC business is going to continue to decline unless they can put SPARC where IBM's Power is or pull their fingers out and give SPARC the raw power of x86 to attract people. Neither looks likely.