While we “don’t do numbers” here at RedMonk, I come across many interesting ones each week. Here are some:<\/p>\n
\n“Our estimate for the Sun business contribution income comes in at over $400 million for our first full quarter after the merger<\/strong>,” said Oracle president Safra Catz. “This compared to the loss in Sun\u2019s quarter ending June of last year when Sun was an independent company.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Indeed, Sun was disastrously loss making in the financial quarters preceeding its acquisition. In October 2008, the company reported a quarterly loss of $1.7 billion thanks to an acquisition write-down<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Oracle has instigated a number of measures<\/strong> to turn the Sun business around. One of these was to cut out the channel partners in its 4,000 most valuable customer engagements, instead selling to those customers directly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Open Source Revenue – RedHat<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nThe poster child for the commercial open source model Red Hat today reported revenues of $209.1 million for the first quarter<\/b> of its new financial, up 20%<\/b> from the same period of last year…. Net profit for the quarter rose 30% to $24.1 million<\/b>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Register<\/i> has more numbers and details<\/a>, like employee count, cash on hand, etc.<\/p>\n
Hey, it’s a lot of work<\/a><\/h2>\n
Helios spans 39 project teams<\/b>, with 490 committers<\/b> working on more than 33 million lines of code<\/b>. Four years ago, the Callisto<\/b> release train coordinated just 10 teams with 260 committers and seven million lines of code,<\/b> hailed in 2006 as “a major undertaking”.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Passion Lives<\/a><\/h2>\n
Following yesterday\u2019s pre-order disaster for the iPhone 4, Apple has just announced that along with AT&T and carrier partners outside of the US it took pre-orders for more than 600,000 for the latest phone<\/b>. It was the largest number of pre-orders the company has ever taken in a single day, and according to Apple, far higher than they anticipated.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Getting to a $350M evaluation<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nSM: How did [Nimsoft’s] revenue ramp?<\/p>\n
GR: In 2006 we had $10 million, in 2007 we had $17 million, in 2008 it was $25 million, and in 2009 we had $32 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Jive’s Social Business Revenue<\/a><\/h2>\n
[Jive is] doing sales in the range of $75,000-$150,000 per company<\/b>, on average, but the dollar amount is increasing. He\u2019s done ten $1 million deals and four of those came in the last two quarters<\/b>. The company has 3,000 customers, 15 million users, and will end the year on a $100 million run-rate<\/b>. Considering that a few years ago open source darlings like Jboss were valued at hundreds-of-millions of dollars when they were doing less than $50 million in revenue<\/b>, that\u2019s a decent software business.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
iNewsstand<\/a><\/h2>\n
After just nine days<\/b>, Cond\u00e9 Nast’s magazine Wired<\/i> is reporting an astonishing feat: the sales of its iPad edition are set to surpass those of its print edition. The New York Observer<\/i> reports that just a little over a week after its initial release, the magazine’s iPad edition has already sold 79,000 copies<\/b>. Considering that Wired’s<\/b><\/i> newsstand sales average around 80,000 a month<\/b>, it seems safe to assume at this point that the sales of the iPad edition will soon surpass those of the print edition.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now they’re up to “more than 90,000” copies and launching a Gourmet iPad app<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Developing Desktops<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nFor the 2010 [Eclipse community] report, 32.7 percent of survey respondents reported that they used Linux as their development operating system<\/b>. The 2010 figure is an increase over the 2009 study when 26.9 percent<\/b> of respondents identified Linux as their development platform operating system of choice. Overall, Windows remains the top development platform in Eclipse’s study at 58.3 percent<\/b>, which is a decline from the 64.3 percent<\/b> reported for 2009.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Disclosure:<\/b> The Eclipse Foundation is a client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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