How Sun's need to control the code cost them the company [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc my current employer.] If you click on www.sun.com , you get redirected to www.oracle.com . Sun is no more. 
Share:  How <span class="company">Sun</span>'s need to control the code cost them the company [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc my current employer.] If you click on www.sun.com , you get redirected to www.oracle.com . <span class="company">Sun</span> is no more. Tweet this 

"Risc/Itanium Unix and mainframes remained constrained and that exerted downward pressure on overall vendor revenues," said Gartner research vice president Jeffery Hewitt. In terms of factory revenues, Gartner said IBM led the market but Big Blue and Sun Microsystems, were the only top five vendors to record a decline. With shipments, all the major players, again apart from Sun, posted growth. Regionally, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa and the US posted shipments rises but Canada, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan and Latin America saw unit sales decline. For the year, worldwide server sales fell 16.6% and revenues went down 18.3%, said Gartner. 
Share:  <span class="sent">"Risc/Itanium Unix and mainframes remained constrained and that exerted downward pressure on overall vendor revenues," said Gartner research vice president <span class="analyst">Jeffery Hewitt</span>.</span> In terms of factory revenues, Gartner said IBM led the market but Big Blue and <span class="company">Sun Microsystems</span>, were the only top five vendors to record a decline. With shipments, all the major players, again apart from Sun, posted growth. Regionally, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa and the US posted shipments rises but Canada, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan and Latin America saw unit sales decline. For the year, worldwide server sales fell 16.6% and revenues went down 18.3%, said Gartner. Tweet this 

We remain positive on Oracle Corp.'s ( ORCL , Analyst Report ) long term growth and expect 2011 results to be strongly aided by the Sun Microsystems acquisition, which provides an impetus for growth in fiscal 2011 and beyond. We expect increased accretive synergies strengthening its competitive position The acquisition enabled Oracle to take out its number one competitor, Sun and better position it to compete against International Business Machines Corp ( IBM , Analyst Report ), its biggest database software rival, as well as Hewlett Packard Co ( HPQ , Analyst Report ) and Cisco Systems ( CSCO , Analyst Report ) 
Share:  <span class="sent">We remain positive on Oracle Corp.'s ( ORCL , Analyst Report ) long term growth and expect 2011 results to be strongly aided by the <span class="company">Sun Microsystems</span> acquisition, which provides an impetus for growth in fiscal 2011 and beyond. </span> We expect increased accretive synergies strengthening its competitive position The acquisition enabled Oracle to take out its number one competitor, Sun and better position it to compete against International Business Machines Corp ( IBM , Analyst Report ), its biggest database software rival, as well as Hewlett Packard Co ( HPQ , Analyst Report ) and Cisco Systems ( CSCO , Analyst Report ) Tweet this