On Jan 30, 12:06 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 5:40 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > These are Q2 figures (i.e. July to Sept 2008, unless I'm mistaken) so > > they apply to before the current slump really started to bite hard. > > The Sun financial year is not aligned with the calendar year - Q2/09 > ended Dec 28, > 2008:http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/investor/earnings_releases/pr/fy09q2/inde... > > > Java revenues of $67m as a fraction of total revenues of $1,370m comes > > to less than 5% (an unusually high percentage). > > Total revenue for Q2 was $3.220 billion (see link above), so Java is > only 2% of total revenue.
My bad. I didn't align Q2 to the calendar year but to the UK tax year, which I mistakenly assumed war faily universal. A quick look at Wikipedia shows that the sutuation is far more complex and varies and can mean pretty much what the reporting company chooses. The latter point reinforces my observation that Java is probably worth more to Sun as a saleable asset than as a revenue stream (political considerations notwithstanding). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
