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Tag Archives: Sun Microsystems
Sundown
I’ve gotten multiple requests to dance on Sun’s grave, but Fake Steve seems to have the ceremonies well in hand. I just need something from the wine cellar to accompany the festivities. Perhaps a nice bottle of Churlish Chardonnay… (What … Continue reading
More SORE
Larry Ellison is banging the drum about how Soracle is serious about keeping Sun’s hardware business. What should we conclude from this? That Oracle desperately wants to get rid of Sun’s hardware business…
Soracle
Proposed stock symbol: SORE Customer line: “I’m a SORE customer…” Rejected names: Sunacle? Too close to Unocal. Orasun? Sounds like a cloying dental product. Orsun? You could easily swap Ellison for Hearst in the remake of Citizen Kane… Ok, so … Continue reading
From an Undisclosed Location
Somewhere, the team of guards that has been keeping Scott McNealy gagged and under lock and key in recent years has been doubled and they’ve taken to sedating him to ensure he doesn’t pop off about the prospect of IBM … Continue reading
A Little Sunshine
I’ve been meaning to post on Sun’s latest earnings, but have been delinquent. It is harder to poke fun in light of their thousands of pending job cuts, but my post speaks to the root cause of Sun’s predicament: software. … Continue reading
Negative Intrinsic Value?
Ouch. This is not a stable situation. JAVA: 4.62 -0.15 (-3.14%) – Sun Microsystems, Inc. Behold: Sun, if it still has $3.5B cash, is now a negative-net-worth company (at $4.62/share, mkt cap = $3.43B). Low price for today so far … Continue reading
MySQL or My Bad?
I was wondering a few months ago how Sun’s MySQL acquisition would impact their relationship with Oracle: How has the MySQL acquisition by Sun impacted the relationship with Sun’s biggest historical partner, Oracle? I may be misjudging Oracle’s leadership, history … Continue reading
Utility Computing or Futility Computing?
Perhaps the network is not in fact the computer. The Register reports that after 14 months Sun still doesn’t have any customers for their $1/CPU/hour computing service. It is easy to pick on Sun, but they’ve made the same … Continue reading