Sun to tout Wall Street wins in September
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Struggling company set to show that it's grabbed some customers in the financial community, one of Sun's three chief markets.
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Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) dominance on the desktop may turn out to be Sun Microsystems&#39; (Quote, Chart) gain in the end. A letter to Sun Microsystems&#39; COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission (EC) this
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U.S. stocks were headed for a higher  market open on Monday, with a thinly staffed Wall Street  looking to extend a year-end rally.
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Sun Microsystems made some of its first sales in the early 1980s selling workstations to Wall Street. Now the struggling Santa Clara computer maker is returning to its roots with a campaign to win back some of its former financial-industry customers.
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Investor's Business Daily - That's the lesson Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are about to learn as they take on Linux -- and each other -- in dueling efforts to woo Wall Street techies.
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NEW YORK - A brokerage firm's negative outlook for the semiconductor industry pressured tech shares Thursday, while the broader market was little changed as a jump in jobless claims offset investors' relief over declining oil prices.    Late summer trading is known for being thin, but with the Republican National Convention set for New York next week, Wall Street is even less crowded than usual for late August...
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NEW YORK SunTrust Banks said Monday that it expected to restate its profit upward for the first half to fix how it accounted for loan losses, and the large US bank put two senior finance executives on paid leave.
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Some of the Wall Street brokerages on tap to report earnings next month might see better-than-expected results as a rebound in the stock market is expected to fuel performance within their equities businesses.
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Wall Street was set for a flat start on  Thursday but stellar results from Apple Computer AAPL.O will  underpin the technology sector ahead of earnings from network  computer maker Sun Microsystems SUNW.O.
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(InfoWorld) - Apparently it's not enough that Sun peppers any and all discussions of its hardware and software products with liberal mentions of its Java programming language, now the vendor wants Wall Street to sit up and take more note of its homegrown technology too. As of Monday, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s ticker on the Nasdaq stock exchange will be Java, as the vendor turns its back on the SUNW ticker, which has served the company since it went public in 1986. Sun announced the upcoming change on Thursday. Sun had its origins on the Stanford campus where three of the California university's graduate students Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy, along with Berkeley graduate Bill Joy, came together to found the company in 1982. The name Sun originally stood for Stanford University Network, while the W indicated Sun's first products: workstations. In a Thursday posting on his blog, Sun president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz heralded the ticker change as recognizing that the Java brand is much better known than Sun, the company behind it. "The number of people who know Java swamps the number of people who know Sun," he wrote, pointing to the technology's ubiquity as it's present in most of today's PCs, mobile devices and embedded systems. While the SUNW symbol is well known in the financial community, it represents "nostalgic value" and "the past," according to Schwartz. By contrast, the Java brand is "inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability)," he added. Schwartz was careful to state that the ticker name change wasn't indicative of any change in strategy for Sun, which will continue to offer a mix of products. "But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category -- and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol," he wrote. "Java means limitless opportunity -- for our software, systems, storage, service and microelectronics businesses." Initial reactions to Sun's ticker change were mostly unfavorable -- "a terrible idea," "a waste of money," "a stupid move," "a joke," and "worst idea ever," according to most of the comments appended to Schwartz's blog. Commentators saw the Java ticker as limiting, not expressive of Sun's overall product portfolio and also very much yesterday's technology. While Java has been widely adopted, its ubiquity and its 12 years in the market add up to a dated technology, they wrote. Sun began work on what later became Java in 1991 as a project code-named "Oak" initially for use in set-top boxes. The company then re-evaluated the work it had done and repurposed the effort as a new programming language with the mantra of "Write once, run anywhere." In other words, developers could create a program in Java and then have it run without alternation on a wide variety of hardware platforms. Sun unveiled Java in 1995, and, after some initial hiccups, the vendor saw widespread adoption of the language by developers working at all different sizes of companies from very large enterprises to small embedded systems startups. After committing to open-source Java in May 2006,Â Sun finally began making Java freely available in NovemberÂ under both its own open source license, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), and the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). The move is in line with Sun's promise to eventually make more of its software available as open source technologies.
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These solar companies shine a light on their way to fast cash.
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Wall Street faces home sales data and more earnings reports this week, as it decides whether growth is strong enough to justify pushing the Dow Jones industrial average back above 14,000.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc. plans to launch a  weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal next September,  adding more lifestyle coverage to attract advertisers for  travel, consumer electronics and luxury goods, the company said  on Wednesday.
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Sun Microsystems Inc.  is staging its first press and customer event in New York on Tuesday in three years to roll out new products and woo customers in the banking industry, one of the network computer maker's most important markets.
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Investor's Business Daily - Spain has looked good for the last month -- but it&#39;s not the sun that&#39;s powering its shine. It&#39;s the rest of Europe, analysts say.
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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 Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is staging its first press and customer event in New York on Tuesday in three years to roll out new products