Sun shrugs off product slip in Q2
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Services carry the load Despite falling product revenue, Sun Microsystems posted decent enough second quarter results.â¦
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Pension funds call for veto Despite losses nearing $1bn over the past year, Sun Microsystems' top executives are cashing in.â¦
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More than one way to skin a market. Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) believes the pricing on Solaris 10 will be irresistible: nada.
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Microsoft and Sun may be going steady, but they aren&#39;t quite sure where the relationship is headed. The companies gave an update on Wednesday to their &quot;ongoing dialogue&quot; about product interoperability that
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Sun doesn't want to bring its Solaris operating sytem to Intel's Itanium chip. This week.
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The company's latest earnings met analysts' estimates but uncertainty still lingers.
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Software giant's deal with Sun has raised some questions.
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In doing some reporting for Sun&#39;s Solaris 10 announcement Monday, I asked some analysts for their thoughts on Sun&#39;s overall Solaris vs.
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DECEMBER 02, 2004  - Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said yesterday that they&#39;re pleased with the progress they have made in the early stages of the 10-year alliance they forged in April (see story).
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Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. reduced its net income by &#36;12 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, citing new information related to property leases and the finalization of the accounting for its settlement with Microsoft Corp.
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Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) said it broke even for the fiscal first quarter, topping analysts&#39; estimates.
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InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems, buoyed by its first profitable quarter in more than a year and a half, said Tuesday it has a goal of generating an operating margin of 10 percent by its 2009 fiscal year.
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Sun doubled its profit in the quarter ended Dec. 30, although revenue was nearly flat compared with the same period a year earlier, the company announced Thursday.Net income for the quarter, the second of Sun&#39;s fiscal year, was $260 million, or $0.31 per share, up from $133 million and $0.15 per share in the same quarter of fiscal 2006, the company announced Thursday.Revenue was $3.62 billion, up just 1.4 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. The growth came from Sun&#39;s services business, where revenue climbed 5 percent. Sales of servers and storage products, which account for about two-thirds of Sun&#39;s business, declined by 0.5 percent.Business was particularly slow in the U.S., where revenue declined 8 percent year over year. The EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region performed better with growth of 7 percent. EMEA accounted for 39 percent of revenue in the quarter, overtaking the U.S., which is usually Sun&#39;s biggest source of revenue.Despite the quarter&#39;s slow growth, Sun said its full-year growth would be better. On a conference call, Chief Financial Officer Mike Lehman said revenue for fiscal 2008 would increase in the &quot;low-to-mid single digits&quot; and predicted revenue growth in the second half of greater than 5 percent.Sun&#39;s profit benefited from its ongoing cost-cutting plan, which has included several hundred layoffs so far. Its $260 million profit included a restructuring charge of $32 million.Sun announced a surprise plan last week to buy MySQL, the biggest open-source database vendor, for $1 billion. Sun officials said Thursday they are unsure whether the MySQL acquisition will close in the second or third quarter, and have not yet calculated the long-term impact on Sun&#39;s financials. They expect to take a one-time charge of $30 million to $50 million when the deal closes.
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Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) saw its first-quarter loss reduced on Friday, as it cemented the accounting for its $92 million patent settlement with Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ).
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Torched by Transitive Technology Forum HP and Novell grabbed hold of their Transitive stick this week and smacked around poor Sun Microsystems.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO - With $190 million in charges on its balance sheet related to restructuring and its recent patent lawsuit settlement with Eastman Kodak Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday posted a net loss of $174 million for its the first quarter of its fiscal 2005 year, which ended September 26.
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Thin-client Sun Ray product hasn't taken off yet, but Sun hopes subscription pricing will boost its popularity.