Sun shines again?
Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010 and has been embroiled
in a $2.6 million lawsuit Sun filed against Google for patent and
copyright infringement over use of Java in Android.
(NOVEMBER 5, 2006)
Then: It incurred a loss of $864 million (Rs 3,802 crore) on sales of $13.06 billion (Rs 57,464 crore) last year; yet Dennis Heraud, President (Asia Pacific), Sun Microsystems, remains unperturbed. After being hemmed in by Linux at the top-end and a Dell-Intel combination in the entry-level server market, Sun is back on the growth path again. Heraud makes it clear that Sun will never be a distribution or a systems integration kind of company. "That is why we invested in R&D. We are now getting the pay-off. Our new products, like Solaris 10, Niagara range of T 1,000 and T 2,000 servers, have been very well received by the market. We have also expanded our share of the server market in the Asia Pacific region," says Heraud.
The Rs 1,400-crore Sun Microsystems India (the company refuses to share revenues by geography) has designated India as a geographically established market. Says Heraud: "With the telecom, banking, retail, financial services and insurance sectors booming, India was a fast-growing market for us last year and I expect it to do even better this year."
Now: Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010 and has been embroiled in a $2.6 million lawsuit Sun filed against Google for patent and copyright infringement over use of Java in Android. Google maintains that its 2006 partnership with Sun was to jointly build Android, and was not a patent licensing agreement. September 18 2011 BUSINESS TODAY 27 ANAMIKA BUTA L I A TATA NANO
Then: It incurred a loss of $864 million (Rs 3,802 crore) on sales of $13.06 billion (Rs 57,464 crore) last year; yet Dennis Heraud, President (Asia Pacific), Sun Microsystems, remains unperturbed. After being hemmed in by Linux at the top-end and a Dell-Intel combination in the entry-level server market, Sun is back on the growth path again. Heraud makes it clear that Sun will never be a distribution or a systems integration kind of company. "That is why we invested in R&D. We are now getting the pay-off. Our new products, like Solaris 10, Niagara range of T 1,000 and T 2,000 servers, have been very well received by the market. We have also expanded our share of the server market in the Asia Pacific region," says Heraud.
The Rs 1,400-crore Sun Microsystems India (the company refuses to share revenues by geography) has designated India as a geographically established market. Says Heraud: "With the telecom, banking, retail, financial services and insurance sectors booming, India was a fast-growing market for us last year and I expect it to do even better this year."
Now: Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in January 2010 and has been embroiled in a $2.6 million lawsuit Sun filed against Google for patent and copyright infringement over use of Java in Android. Google maintains that its 2006 partnership with Sun was to jointly build Android, and was not a patent licensing agreement. September 18 2011 BUSINESS TODAY 27 ANAMIKA BUTA L I A TATA NANO
