Sun Dodges A $2 Billion Bullet
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Somewhere in the pine bluffs of Washington, a Microsoft (MSFT) exec or two had to have been chuckling. On Oct. 1, a Rochester (NY) jury found that computer giant Sun Microsystems (SUNW), the company that extracted
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Sun&#39;s COO Jonathan Schwartz has outlined a new direction for his company in the form of a cycle farm. Such a farm would rent out CPU time by the hour for a nominal charge - 99 cents for the use of a dual CPU
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In the second of a two-part review of 2004, World Business Report looks back on a year which saw Microsoft challenge a $600m EU fine and make peace with its long-time rival, Sun Microsystems.
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These solar companies shine a light on their way to fast cash.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal 2008 second-quarter earnings nearly doubled as services revenue increased and its gross margin improved.
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Sun's services business did well, but sales of servers and storage wares went down.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. posted a small profit for its fiscal second quarter Thursday, but year-over-year sales continued to slide as the server and software maker struggled to gain back business it lost after tech collapse in 2001.
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I believe you have my stapler Sun Microsystems has gone very granola by buying desktop virtualization software player innotek. (The small 'i' stands for big innovation or something like that.)â¦
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As it struggled to increase sales and cut costs, Sun Microsystems managed to reduce its net loss in the first quarter to $174 million.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O on  Thursday reported a small quarterly net profit, after a  year-earlier loss, but a new range of products has so far  failed to ignite sales at the maker of computer servers and  storage equipment.
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It cost Sun Microsystems $5 billion to develop Solaris, a powerful computer operating system used by governments and giant corporations worldwide. But in a concession to the radical new economics of computer software, Sun will distribute the latest version of Solaris free of charge, to anyone who wants a copy.
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roundup Plus: Sun expands pay-as-you go supercomputing...SGI works on Linux performance software...Good Technology supported by HP, Samsung.
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion â helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more
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InfoWorld - The Story: Sun Microsystems has been in and out of the (metaphorical) grave more often than Count Dracula.
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OCTOBER 14, 2004 (REUTERS) - SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems Inc. today posted a narrower quarterly loss as revenue rose year over year for the second consecutive quarter after three years of declines, sending shares slightly higher.
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Shares of network computer maker  Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O fell for a second day on Tuesday  after another Wall Street analyst cautioned clients not to  expect an unusually strong quarter from the company.
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Â· Sun's Â£30m device soon to be overtaken by rival IBM  Â· Machines getting more powerful and less costly