A favorite metaphor to for code-monkeys to make fun of is “growing the pie.” That’s the story, stronger than ever from Sun at their analyst event today. “Growing the pie” is the story of creating a larger market for IT and then being there when people want to spend money.<\/p>\n
The story from Sun is that this pie is just about done cooking, and that big MySQL topping is the pie-accelator. As I Twittered earlier, Sun’s head sales dude, Don Grantham comments at the analyst event boiled down to:<\/p>\n
\nSun is anticipating an avalanche of service\/support contracts for MySQL.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Throw in emerging markets, companies that want to build out their IT to establish web-bases relationships with customers, and you’ve got some more pie-potential.<\/p>\n
The ever green issue with Sun’s pie baking is that they don’t break-out their revenue by pie-slice. They only want to talk about how big the whole pie is, not each part. Obviously – one hopes! – Sun knows these numbers internally, but they don’t share them with others.<\/p>\n
At the moment, there’s pie-profit – yay! – but what people like myself want is a more open look into each of those slices. That’s the key to understanding future pie-potential. Otherwise, all we have to go on is Sun’s word – “just trust us, this pie is awesome” – that the pie is big and each slice is contributing.<\/p>\n
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