online.wsj.com — Sun Microsystems Inc., citing impacts of the softening U.S. economy, posted a net loss on a slight decline in revenue for its third quarter and announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs. Shares fell 2.42 or 14.82% to $13.91 in after-hours trading.
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mikeliemanMay 2, 2008
Solaris tar will continue to be unable to handle something that's been gzipped. I know, I know, use gtar, but c'mon....
sonicularulusMay 3, 2008
i thought the sun worked on its own.
4uidiggMay 3, 2008
Not hard to code, just hard to distribute production software because the installer does not come with the SDK. And java applets hog CPU when they start-up. Adobe Flex is kicking java's *ss and eating java's lunch as I type this.But yeah, Sun's lack of success is no surprise.
zettabyteMay 3, 2008
You sell drugs?
Closed AccountMay 3, 2008
This must be the 5th reduction in force since 2002? Java should have been open sourced at birth. I wish Sun would go back to being an innovative hardware company. Some of their servers are gorgeous; it's time they started concentrating on what they do best. Stop acquiring (StorageTek, MySQL, VirtualBox). I still can't wrap my head around the fact they bought MySQL, but are still trying to use Oracle on some internal projects; talk about not eating your own dog food.
irondonutMay 4, 2008
This is a big 22,000sq/ft commercial data center. They colo for hundreds of local companies. It's actually hard to find Sun hardware in the place. If hundreds of our local technology companies aren't using Sun that means it's a trend everywhere. The reality is if Sun hardware is less than 1% of this data center it's the same everywhere else. This is why they continue to lose money. We have several Dells that have been running in production for years as well. Relability isn't unique to Sun.
deadnewtonMay 7, 2008
good luck with their super memory hogging JRE