On Jan 30, 11:56 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Total revenue for Q2 was $3.220 billion (see link above), so Java is > > only 2% of total revenue. > > 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).
Agreed. OpenSolaris and MySQL are more important strategically, I suppose, because they have their own revenue streams, and are used in other products (such as the OpenStorage system, probably cloud computing going forward) where it's important to tweak these ingredients to improve these products. Obviously, Sun uses Java a lot, but I'm not sure that they need to tweak it in a special way to improve their other products. And even if they wanted to - there is much more or a shared ownership of Java so Sun doesn't call (all) the shots there anymore. MySQL and OpenSolaris (to a lesser) are practically "proprietary Sun products with public version control" (the same way JBoss is). At least OpenSolaris tries to get more outside contributions, I believe, but I'm not so sure about MySQL - look at all these non-Sun patches and MySQL distributions. I don't blame Sun for any of that - they sponsor these projects, so they can do with them what they want. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
