When market researcher IDC puts out its quarterly server numbers you can be certain of one thing – Sun will have the worst performance of all the major server vendors.
Sun = Always the laggard.
We have IDC’s 4Q 2009 server number estimates with us and as sure as night follows day Sun is again the worst performer.
Overall server revenues declined 3.9% year over year in the quarter but Sun’s server revenues fell a whopping 17.3%.
Here take a deko at the numbers:
In other findings from the IDC survey:
* Linux server demand improved in 4Q09 with revenue growing 6.1% to $1.9 billion compared
Gee, these folks at Intel are forever in the news for the wrong reasons.
The Federal Trade Commission sued the chip giant today charging it with using its dominant market position in microprocessors to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly.
The FTC lawsuit comes barely a few weeks after Intel agreed to pay $1.25 billion to rival AMD to legal disputes.
The FTC complaint alleges that Intel has conducted a systematic campaign to shut out rivals’ competing microprocessors by cutting off their access to the marketplace and deprived consumers of choice and innovation.
We’ve been shouting ourselves hoarse here that Sun Microsystems is a completely screwed up company.
The saga of this shitty Silicon Valley IT company is one of losses, losses and more losses and crappy servers that fewer and fewer businesses want to buy.
No surprise then that the dying company was sold to Oracle and the company recently announced plans to fire another 3,000 employees on top of the thousands it’s laid off previously.
We’ve long advocated on this blog that all the Sun employees must be fired, the company should be shut down and the money ought to be returned to shareholders.
Alas, our words of wisdom have fallen on deaf ears and the company’s downward slide continues unabated.
Gartner put out its quarterly servers report the other day and the numbers for Sun are plain awful.
A frigging nightmare.
Here, look at the below table to see how badly Sun servers are faring vis-a-vis its competitors:
Of course, if Sun’s server revenues are falling 32%, its shipments must be falling precipitously too.
Right. No surprises here.
Folks, Sun’s server shipments are not merely falling but collapsing. Please see
Sweet.
We always knew that this is how it would play out in the end – Intel on its knees in front of AMD’s open fly.
Uncork the Dom Perignon
Today Intel agreed to fork out a whopping $1.25 billion to AMD to settle all outstanding legal disputes between the two companies.
The settlement covers antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
Intel also promised to behave itself in future by agreeing to abide by a set of business practice provisions.
In exchange for Intel’s moolah and capitulation, AMD will drop all pending litigation including the case in the U.S. District Court in Delaware and two cases pending in Japan.
Besides death and taxes, add repeated poor performances by Sun Microsystems to the list of life’s certainties.
IDC put out its server marketshare numbers for the second quarter the other day.
No surprise here, folks.
Sun had a really bad quarter, declining in server marketshare and declining in revenues.
Don’t tell us you expected anything different from the Sun clowns.
Sure, we’re in a recession and overall server revenues fell 30% year-over-year.
But Sun’s server revenue decline of 37.2% was higher than the decline of the overall market.
Sun’s server revenue decline in the quarter was the highest among the Top 5 server vendors, according to the IDC server tracker figures.
Take a look at the server numbers below:
Poor Fiscal Q4
By the way, Sun reported lousy results in its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2009 - a loss of $147 million ($88 million profit in the year earlier quarter) on revenues that fell 31% to $2.63 billion.
For the full fiscal year 2009, Sun reported a loss of $2.23 billion on revenues of $11.45 billion.
Worldwide PC shipments fell 5% in the second quarter but Dell’s PC shipments declined by a whopping 17%.
According to the folks at market researcher Gartner, worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2009 was 68.149 million units compared to 71.741 million in the same quarter of last year.
Although in retreat, the PC market performed better than Gartner’s prediction last month of a 9.8% decline.
Boosted by sales of its low-cost PCs, Acer shipments grew 34% year-over-year to 9.196 million units. Acer tied (almost) with Dell for the second spot in the global PC business.
HP took the top spot with 13.371 million unit, up 2.8% year-over-year.
Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said:
In the first quarter of 2009, inventory re-stocking played a
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