louds:
De onde você tirou isso? Vá ler o balancete da empresa e ver se tua afirmação tem qq relação com a realidade.
Já postei o link antes, mas como o pessoal adora malhar os outros sem buscar referência, vamos lá. Não sei o espanto, isso é conhecimento geral e a Sun sempre confirma isso em todas as conferências. Será que vocês nunca acompanharam nenhuma? Por favor, não sejam aqueles que acompanham os dados das empresas pelo site da MS.
Java software billings grew 47% year over year, as we continued to monetize our distribution power to the world’s client devices, from personal computers, to set top boxes and mobile handsets, and as we began delivery of our new platform, JavaFX, to OEMS across the world. As mobile devices and network enabled consumer devices continue to heat up, we believe the Java platform, running in front of billions of consumers, represents an increasingly attractive business.
Acho que não sou eu que estou por fora da realidade. Aliás, acho que nem você, mas por algum motivo gosta de pintar o diabo mais feio do que parece pro Java (isso porque é um moderador. Papelão, hein?)
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20081030
Como diz sua Microsoft: vamos aos fatos. heheh
Sobre a divisão Java dar dinheiro:
[b]Wait, you make money off Java?
Yes, it’s among the most profitable technology products at Sun - and improving. Java’s one of the most popularly distributed pieces of Software on the internet, we distribute over a million Java runtimes a day to users across every OS and geography on PC’s. That helps us reach a very broad community of users and, more importantly, developers. We have some exciting news coming up around these distribution volumes - and their value to us, and others. [/b]
Sobre de onde vêm o prejuízo:
[b]What about lowlights?
Clearly the traditional businesses slowed significantly - with enterprise systems (our largest, mainframe class systems) declining year over year. This time last year, those same systems grew nearly 20% - so the downturn is having an impact. It’s crucial to understand these systems are far less sensitive to open source innovations or Solaris adoption - they’re sold to customers who are scaling up existing Solaris applications, who rely on quality, fault tolerance and our capacity to deliver mainframe scale. We and Fujitsu just expanded this product line - and no matter the downturn, we remain exceptionally focused and committed to traditional enterprise computing. The expansion of scale out computing doesn’t negate scale up computing - if anything, it leads to even greater demand, over time. IBM was right, mainframes will always be sexy (especially when they run Solaris :).
On the storage front, tape declined slightly, although our high end storage systems grew, yielding growth overall in storage - growth we’re driving to accelerate with the introduction of our upcoming Open Storage innovations.
Why were gross margins lower this quarter?
A few reasons that Mike Lehman, our CFO, elaborated on during the call - the lull in very high end systems, along with discounting and component pricing depressed gross margins. In addition, we went through a series of product transition related expenses this quarter we do not expect to recur, that depressed margins by around 2 percentage points. [/b]
Sugestão:
quando precisar informações, antes de vir atacar alguém, procure na internet ou direto na fonte (no caso, no próprio portal da Sun).
Os relatórios são públicos e estão disponíveis pra todos (até pros que não gostam de Java mas são moderadores). Particularmente, sou fã de vários blogs dentro do portal, por isso falo com conhecimento de causa, embora tenho preguiça de ficar correndo atrás de fontes toda vez que algum engraçadinho vêm postar alguma inverdade.
Dá pra você pesquisar nos trimestres anteriores e verificar que a divisão de hardware vêm mal das pernas não é de hoje e que o Java não é o vilão.