Scott came to Japan

Scott McNealy came to Japan - @ Roppongi Hills yesterday, his mentioned that us the customer announces the plan which will carry out introduction of the new service which uses a server's throughput like electric power or water using a network (aka UC) also in Japan soon following U.S. rather than has the server itself by himself. The server business in the world showed the view that it shifts to such "placed type of an order." New service of Sun has the special terminal in which a customer has the minimum functions, such as a screen, and CPU and data memory storage which are brains are connected the Sun side in a network, and pay the charge of use per time. It was called the "Sun Grid" and announced for U.S. in Feb '05. Although the type server was pushed on the OS Linux loading server currently exhibited gratuitously conventionally which is the main items of the company and it was feeling, he emphasized even in Japan "Future share expansion is possible" by introduction of new service. Plan to lend out the new terminal itself to a customer is also expressed. "Sun is an infrastructure company. Predominancy is claimed that Sun doesn't need to take charge of maintenance maintenance business, such as a measure against security, and customer does not need to require recession cost (at the stop time)." The difference in a strategy with IBM which raises profits on Global Services (IGS) business was emphasized. Indication whether do you announce that gratis opening of Server's OS design development document (source code) and so on. It will be carried out in January this year, and "whether the profit depended soft to fall off" has come out. "If OS users of Sun increase in number by having made it onerous, the increase in a service contract can be expected and it will become the increase of an income. The advantage was emphasized that furthermore, possibility of having the server of Sun purchased in the future increases." The sudden reconciliation in Apr'04 with Microsoft which also developed the lawsuit battle "we have sufficient cash equivalent and are not the reconciliation monetary value reliance which is about 2 billion dollars. It is claimed that the customer asked for the cooperation to the program language of both companies." It was described Bill Gates criticism which was a noted product also "thinks that I do not say such a thing any longer, although mass communications may regret that it cannot quote." About tie-up expansion with a server enterprise with FUJITSU which announced in June '04 , it presupposed "It is various and is groping for expanding a relation from now on also." [General] ( 4月 05, 2005 02:09 午後 ) Permalink | 投稿されたコメント [10]