Sun shuffles sales execs
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Executive vice president of sales becomes Sun's executive vice president for strategic development and Sun financing.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is on track to meet its financial targets for the 2008 and 2009 fiscal years, fueled by strong sales growth in emerging markets and a shift toward more expensive server and storage setups, the company's chief financial officer said Tuesday.
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In its latest move to restructure and shore up its stock, Sprint Nextel yesterday announced the immediate departures of three top executives, including Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh.
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Sun is getting into the open-source business with Solaris, but will this automatically translate into better sales?
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NEW YORK - Before what appeared to be a receptive audience, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday fired off a barrage of product promotions, upgrades and service announcements in an attempt to retake its traditional stronghold in the financial community here in New York.
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ChryslerÂs top sales executive, Joe Eberhardt, is leaving to take a retail position at the American operation of Mercedes-Benz.
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Sprint Nextel Corp , the third  largest U.S. mobile service, said on Thursday Chief Financial  Officer Paul Saleh and two other top executives would leave the  company in a new management shake-up.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President Jonathan Schwartz made it clear Wednesday what kind of customers his company hopes to lure now that long-troubled Sun finally appears to be in the middle of an upswing. "There are two customers we see [in the market]," Schwartz said, speaking at a Sun product launch event in New York. "Customers that look at information technology as a competitive weapon, and those that look at information technology as a cost center. We're obsessed with and focused on the former." Calling New York the "epicenter for those kind of customers" because of the technology-savvy financial services firms and media companies that have headquarters there, Schwartz outlined some of the positives for his company since he assumed the CEO position a little over 100 days ago. While his first 100 days "honeymoon is over," according to Schwartz, Sun is just beginning to see the fruits of a comeback strategy it's been crafting since it took the dot.com bust on the chin in 2001. The company seems to be finally climbing -- albeit slowly -- out of its unprofitable rut, and has shown promising revenue growth over the last couple of quarters as it cut costs by shedding employees. Schwartz said the company even expects to achieve sustainable profitability by its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends June 30, 2007. Schwartz had little new to report about the company's overall strategy, although Sun Wednesday launched some storage and server products -- and one, called "Thumper," that is a hybrid of the two. In a message he's been trumpeting for years, the new CEO continued to stress Sun's commitment to offering a mix of hardware systems, software, storage and services, and helping customers combine those products in heterogeneous IT environments so Sun's products run seamlessly alongside competitive offerings. Schwartz pointed to the success of Sun's open-source version of its Solaris OS as proof that Sun is happy to play well with others if it means winning customers. He said since the company open sourced Solaris last year, nearly 70 percent of its implementations have been on competing hardware from IBM Corp., Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., not Sun's own servers. Sun to date has distributed nearly 6 million licenses for OpenSolaris, Schwartz added. One analyst who attended Wednesday's event said it was not meant to be a new product-driven launch. Instead, said Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with Illuminata, the event was to show that Sun's investment in open source and new products over the past several years, including its early adoption of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron chips for its Galaxy server line, is finally beginning to pay off. Sun Wednesday sent a message that it's on the right path now and has something compelling to offer customers who shied away from it since it hit hard times, he said. "This is a drumbeat event," Eunice said. "This was not about the product pipeline, but about customer connections. [This is Sun saying], 'We continue to do the work, continue to get back with quality customers.'" Sun's announcement Wednesday that it has renewed its relationship with systems integrator Accenture Ltd., which is setting up an identity management practice on Sun's technology, is particularly important to reaching new customers or some it has lost since its downturn, Eunice said. "It's a very critical way for Sun to get new business and revenue," he said of the Accenture deal.
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IBM is realigning elements of its sales organization to better reach small-to-medium-sized businesses.
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SAN FRANCISCO - EBay Inc. announced a senior management reorganization Thursday, increasing international responsibilities for three executives and underscoring the significance of the company&#39;s tremendously profitable PayPal division.
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Sun is moving from its traditional focus on supporting only its Solaris operating system platform and beefing up its support for competing operating systems such as Windows, HP-UX and AIX, with the purchase of IT services company SevenSpace.
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EBay Inc. announced a senior management reorganization Thursday, increasing international responsibilities for three executives and underscoring the significance of the company's tremendously profitable PayPal division.
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Sprint Nextel Corp , the third largest U.S. mobile service, said on Thursday Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh and two other top executives would leave the company in a new management shake-up.
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In a push to regain some of its lost luster, Sun Microsystems (SUNW:Nasdaq - news - research) will take the wraps off Solaris 10, an updated version of its operating system, at an event in San Jose, Calif.
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Sun-TimesÂ chief executive will step down as the company shifts its New York-based corporate functions to its Chicago headquarters.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. ,  which has struggled in recent years to remain profitable and  boost revenue, said on Wednesday it would cut as many as 5,000  jobs, or 13 percent of its workforce, over the next six months.
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OS under attack from families Exclusive A pair of Sun's top Solaris executives have scurried right on out of the company, The Register can reveal.â¦