Where does India rank in terms of revenue and strategic importance in the emerging markets geography?
Sun India is one of the youngest and the fastest growing geographically established market (GEM). Last year, we grew our business faster than the market and overachieved all our financial metrics. We added new partners and 265 customers. Whether it is the telecom market or the BFSI space or government and education. We have supplied hardware to newer verticals like retail, healthcare and life sciences. Sun powers the pillars of the Indian economy either directly or indirectly. Majority of the telephone traffic in the country is routed through Sun servers and a big chunk of internet backbone is powered by Sun. A large percentage of financial institutions are on Sun platform. An independent study conducted by IIM, Ahmedabad shows Java accounts for 2.1 % of Indias GDP. These go on to prove that Sun has a strong success story across verticals and across geographies. Sun recently acquired MySQL database for about $1 billion. Are open source databases making a dent in the Indian market? Open
