2010/4/5 Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) <[email protected]>: > 2010/4/5 Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) <[email protected]>: >> James: For 3 pretty ROI-worthless aquisitions alone (Cobalt, STK and >> MySQL) Sun's top-management spent 10 Billion USD (ten thousand >> millions!!!). >> Every time the behaved like kids: At hopelessly overheated markets - >> instead of selling something - they bought! Obviously the paid way >> overpriced amounts for much too little counter-valueadd. >> >> >> If you closely watched the NYSE charts over the years you should know, >> that these 10 Billions are more $$$, than Sun ever managed to generate >> as a profit in all these years summed up. >> >> To me that appears to be more related to Sun's liquidity problems. >> And those were indeed severe management faults at the HIGHEST levels. > > > > During a recession, a company should cheaply acquire what it can get. > During overheated times, one should sell a few sub-enterprises for lots of > cash. > > > Sun did the exact opposite: In both overheated times (2000 and > 2005till2007) and in both recessions (after 911 and now). > > Effectively they spent their gold reserves for worthless ROI. > Which brought them into a shortage of cash which could no longer > simply be compensated through mass-layoffs. At the end they were > forced to give themselves away for a few pennies! > > > p.s. Another aspect of their strategic mistakes was, that they focused > too much on a single market, while neglecting the rest. When that > single market suddenly collapsed (US market, and there only the TOP > 500 enterprises and banks), they had a problem. > > > Also, they produced wonderful Ad´s but did not distribute them > sufficiently. And they didnt use enough distribution channels for > their hardware. When I wanted to spent unbelievable EUR 1900,- for a > pretty minimalistic Sun Blade 150 with 128MB memory (!) in 2003, it > took them 2 or 3 weeks until I had it. And I could only order it via > FAX. Compare this to how Dell does it!
Now I recall the rest. This price was pre-VAT!!! Like all the prices on their site until circa 2007 or 2008! Therefore add 16 % German VAT to these EUR 1900 for a humble Blade 150! (Besides: Meanwhile German VAT is at 19%). > %mab > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
