Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Bradley Day at Forrester Research

But as Oracle ( ORCL , news , people ) completes its integration of Sun Microsystems ( JAVA , news , people ) and aims Sun's high end servers at IBM customers, Forrester Research analyst Brad Day says a more important factor may be Power7's ability to compete with a wide range of other servers, both low end x86 machines and high end Unix hardware 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Eric Savitz at Tech Trader Daily

By Eric Savitz Jonathan Schwartz, the now former CEO of Sun Microsystems, announced his resignation yesterday , as the New York Times point out . He did so on Twitter In a haiku: 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Gordon Haff at Illuminata

As the market turned toward cheaper x86 servers and free software, Sun tried to keep up but was never able to regain its footing, said Gordon Haff, an analyst with Illuminata, a market research firm "A challenge that many companies have had when you're doing so well selling old stuff (such as expensive Sparc servers) is it makes it hard to go into Solaris (operating system) and x86, which Sun did eventually," Haff said The company's fortune took a further hit during the great recession and suffered through the long regulatory review process, which concluded with approval from the European Union last month Cook said Sun's spirit will live on among former employees 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Matt Aslett at The 451 Group

A blog for the enterprise open source community 451 CAOS Links 2010.02.02 Matthew Aslett , . Oracle's plans for Sun's OSS The UK's updated OSS strategy And more 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jayson Noland at Robert W. Baird & Company

It cut 9,300 jobs worldwide in its previous fiscal year Jayson Noland, an analyst with RW Baird & Co, said Dell is cutting jobs at a time when some competitors, including Oracle Sun, are talking about expanding and hiring new workers 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Andrew Reichman at Forrester Research

Forrester Research analyst Andrew Reichman isn't so sure "Sun wasn't really getting much traction with their storage portfolio, in spite of some interesting point pieces, Amber Road [code name for the 7000 series] being one of them," he wrote to SearchStorage in an email "I'm not sure if this is what [Ellison] feels like he has to say to prop up the value of Sun, which has been diminishing rapidly, or if he really plans to stand behind it 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mark Murphy at Piper Jaffray

In other words, Oracle is doing all the supply chain moves Sun should have completed years ago Piper Jaffray analyst Mark Murphy concludes: We reiterate our belief that Sun was a bloated and poorly run company with strong underlying technology, and that it is ripe for improvement 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Between the Lines

Oracle Sun's great society vision: Will customers bite? Oracle's new deal for IT buyers looks a lot like the old deal technology executives had in the 1960s: One supplier, service, support and the simplicity that comes with sending the checks to one company You in? 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jayson Noland at Robert W. Baird & Company

The company employs roughly 16,000 workers in Central Texas Jayson Noland, an analyst at RW Baird & Co, Dell is cutting jobs at a time when some competitors, including Oracle Sun, are talking about expanding and hiring new workers 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Oppenheimer & Company

A earlier this month by an Oppenheimer & Co analyst suggested Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) would cut as many as 13,800 of Sun's 27,000 employees 

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jean Bozman at IDC

As it turns out, Sun's parts supply chain is a real mess and extremely inefficient Plus, Sun has a large number of SKUs, more than 40 A reduction in the number of servers and better supply chain management will give the cuts in expenses needed "The supply chain thing is huge," Jean Bozman, research vice president at IDC told InternetNewscom