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Erasmus · #1 (**permalink**) 08-29-2007, 11:46 PM

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MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc expects consumer cell phones on the Java software platform to drive demand for Sun servers in developing countries, Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz said on Wednesday.

"There is a power shift that has occurred," Schwartz told a briefing at the company's campus in Menlo Park, California, about 48 km south of San Francisco.

"The marketplace is going to be defined by the consuming public as much as by the traditional IT (information technology) decision-maker."

Sun developed Java, a software platform that can link devices with different operating systems. About 1.2 billion mobile phones use Java to enable online services such as banking, gaming, instant messaging and video streaming, Sun said.

The world's third-largest maker of server computers for running corporate networks and Web sites considers the cell phone the key to growth in developing countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China, where mobile phones are replacing the traditional wired telephone as the main means of communicating.

Sun's overall revenue grew 6.2 percent from fiscal 2006 to 2007, but growth in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes a number of emerging economies, was nearly twice that rate, a company spokesman said. Technology spending in 2007 is expected to grow by 12.5 percent in Brazil, 16 percent in China, 18.7 percent in Russia and 21 percent in India, Sun said, citing figures from researcher IDC.

Sun Microsystems open sourcing Java could end up being one of the best decisions the company ever made.

Sun estimates there are at least 4 billion phones running Java, which IMO sounds about right.

Skif · #2 (**permalink**) 08-30-2007, 02:55 PM

is this like a post from 1999?

Erasmus · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2007, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Skif

is this like a post from 1999?

The difference is that companies are beginning to understand the emerging markets is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Skif · #4 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007, 08:13 AM

The mobile phone companies better forget about java and start catching up with Apple

Erasmus · #5 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Skif

The mobile phone companies better forget about java and start catching up with Apple

Start catching up with Apple? Ha! Apple will be lucky to get 1 percent of the mobile market.

Then again, it's not like the company really needs more than 1 percent.

Skif · #6 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 02:30 PM

They have a late start, yeah. But I've seen what that iPhone does to people in California. It's brainwashing man

Made me want one and I'm not an Apple guy!

**moving-target** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-03-2007, 03:23 PM

Those Iphone commercials are great. Makes me want one of those phones even though I don't want any of the options.

As for Java, I don't know how Sun makes money off that stuff but I hope they keep making money because I love open office.

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