This view has very small connections to real facts and what is going on
inmarket. It is true that in full software/hardware stack as an end productsome
parts have higher profit margins than others, but profit margin whenyou are
able to deliver whole stack as a product for end user is much higherthat if you
are working with partners and doing some kind of system integration.Plus, you
could benefit by optimizing whole stack and offer much more reliablesolution
that other.
Regarding server market - profit margin is still 40%, which is very
good.OpenSolaris certainly is not unsuccessful product. I'd say that it is one
ofcore products ORACLE now could offer. Especially now when it is free andopen
source comparing to other UNIX platforms.
Uros NedicBelgrade, Serbia
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:03:37 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.
>
> I'm beginning to get a hunch why Oracle is mum about OpenSolaris. Can't stop
> the sinking ship
>
> "Oracle needs to make Sun's once-dominant UNIX server business a success to
> justify the $7.4 billion price tag attached to the acquisition. Critics of
> the deal noted from the start that this wouldn't be easy, given the steady
> market-share declines that proprietary UNIX systems had been seeing over the
> past decade at the hands of cheaper systems running Linux and Microsoft's
> (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows, and powered by Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Xeon and AMD
> (NYSE: AMD) Opteron processors."
>
> http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/05/28/the-sun-isnt-shining-for-oracle.aspx
>
>
> "Like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, or IBM freezing development of their
> respective Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX platforms. It is not hard to imagine
> Oracle or IBM selling off their server businesses to focus on software and
> services, either, letting someone else do the engineering and design and
> designating them as hardware resellers and operating system developers. If
> the economy had gotten truly bad enough - or takes a double dip - you can bet
> a money-losing Oracle or IBM hardware business would be put up on the auction
> block."
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/idc_q1_2010_server_nums/
>
> And it seems Oracle is about to kill SUN servers running AMD CPUs
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/oracle_spikes_opterons/
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