[Info-vax] Gabriel Consulting Group surveys customers about Oracle's recent actions

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <iqrh4i$2ur$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris
<keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> Not so much anymore. Itanium had a slow start, but Itanium server sales 
> surpassed SPARC several years ago.

reference?
 
> Gartner reported (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1561014) these 
> server numbers for last year (2010):
> 
>          Market Share    Revenue Growth    Unit Growth
> HP           31.4%            18.9%           17.3%
> IBM          30.8%             9.2%           12.8%
> Dell         14.7%            31.3%           21.3%
> Oracle/Sun    6.3%           -17.7%          -31.6%
> Fujitsu       4.4%             5.1%           18.8%

and how much of HP's share is due to Itanics?
 
> 
> Clabby Analytics (http://www.clabbyanalytics.com/uploads/SPARCfinal.pdf) 
> says:
> 
> "Sun’s share of the Unix market had been steadily declining for three 
> years — and there is little reason to believe that Oracle’s acquisition 
> of Sun will reverse that trend."
> 
> And they "question whether Oracle should continue to invest in the SPARC 
> architecture" and that they "believe that Oracle will discontinue its 
> SPARC architecture within three years."

And who paid Clabby Analytics for this analysis?