Hello! The recent quarter was bad for Sun (e.g., hardware revenue down 13.8%), but Java revenue was up 47% at $67m (http:// www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/28/sun_q2_earnings/page2.html). My guess is that Microsoft started paying for bundling their toolbar with the JRE downloads. MySQL revenue was up 55% at $81m, though this number is inflated somewhat by "Infrastructure" revenue (http:// news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10152448-16.html? part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad), and Solaris / network management / virtualization revenue was down 29% at $42m.
I think it shows that Sun starts to monetize Java and MySQL (though Java revenue goes up and down a lot). Still, software together is less than 6% of total revenue, so it's got some way to go to pull Sun out of its financial misery. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
