Sun Open Source Business: Is Sun Finding its Way?
Sun reported results for its second quarter of fiscal 2009, and Dana Blankenhorn, Matt Asay and the Var Guy all agree that when it comes to open source Sun is on the rise. Simon Phipps states that open source is driving the new Sun, and Jonathan Schwartz keeps saying that open source is key.Â
The value of the Sun brand maybe the reason behind the growth in MySQL billings, but we don’t know actually what ‘MySQL/infrastracture’ means, and drawing conclusions is a guessing game.Â
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart 9:22 pm on February 3, 2009 Permalink
Hi Roberto. The 55% Y/Y growth listed in page 6 of [1] includes MySQL and “Software Infrastructure”, and the a large portion of the latter builds on GlassFish.
The financial situation is pushing many companies to move from closed, expensive, products to open-source based, much cheaper, products. We are benefiting from that. – eduard/o
[1]http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/investor/earnings_releases/call_slides.jsp
Roberto Galoppini 12:01 pm on February 4, 2009 Permalink
Hi Eduardo,
thank you to bring interesting stuff to the table!
Glassfish for Business seems another great place to share information about Glassfish’s contributions to Sun’s financial results.
If in doubt, read Balsamiq marketing advices and their actual results.