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- Revenue
- Jun 30 2007
- $13.8B
- Profit
- Jun 30 2007
- $473.0M
- Market Cap
- May 08 2008
- $10.2B
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Sun Micro Cutting Up to 2,500 Jobs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA) said on Thursday it would cut 1,500 to 2,500 jobs in the face of U.S. economic weakness and delays in orders from some customers. Sun will take a charge of $130 million to $220 million...
Sun Micro Results Miss, Cites U.S. Economy
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA) posted on Thursday an unexpected quarterly net loss and decline in revenue, saying the U.S. economy presented it with significant challenges, sending its shares down 12 percent. The world's fourth-largest business computer maker reported ...
Great Intrapreneurs in Business History
These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
Four Great Teams in Business History
Great minds, support from management, and their own brand of secret sauce helped these teams come up with some of the biggest innovations in recent business history. The Java Development Team at Sun Microsystems ...
Online Video is the New Business Media
Do you have an online video strategy for your company? If not, this may be the year to get one. That was one of the key insights from today's "Changing World of Business News" webinar sponsored by PRWeek. "Broadband video could very well be a game-changing...
Sun and NetApp's IP War: Clogging the Blogosphere
Its war between Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance, and the blogosphere is the battleground -- for now. Here's the breakdown of events: *Sun accused NetApp of infringing on its patent copyrights and demanded $36 million. *NetApp denied doing so, and then filed a law suit against...
Digital Office Space!
Do you find yourself wishing that some of the members of your team -- especially those that work from home, a remote location or a satellite office -- could be more tied into the workplace? The wait may be almost over thanks to a pair of 3D virtual workplaces hitting...
A Two-Way Street Will Get You There and Back Quicker
A comment from a reader of this blog raises an important point regarding communication within a team. Following the recent post highlighting lessons that Tour De France teams can provide for business teams, a reader pointed out:"At the elite level (of cycling), though, everyone is brought back to the pack...
Corn's Day in the Sun
It's highest priority for national policy to have alternatives to (your choice): a) importing as much oil as we do from the places we get it; b) putting more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere; c) both of the above. Everybody agrees. Corn to ethanol...
Federated Identity Management: The Foundation For Secure Large-Scale Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a powerful tool for reducing costs and eliminating inefficiencies associated with organizations' growing efforts to deliver more and better online services. Outsourcing has become a critical strategic resource not only for business enterprises, but also for entities including government agencies and community-focused groups. This paper will: Examine the...
Visualization Pf Audio: A Social Tool For Face-To-Face Groups
Social psychologists suggest that one way a group can improve its interaction and consequently its productivity is by having a high-level understanding of its emotional and social interaction. This position paper presents a visualization system for viewing and reviewing turn-taking patterns in a face-to-face meeting, used as a way to...
AdvancedTCA And Sun Microsystems: A Technical Overview Of Sun's AdvancedTCA
As the telecommunications field becomes increasingly competitive and a greater breadth of next-generation services is demanded - from smart phones to Voice over IP (VoIP), and video to wireless broadband and other high-bandwidth services - both Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and telecom carriers look for faster, more flexible, and more...
Internal Employee Initiative
Open Work at Sun is much more than a showcase for Sun's corporate vision of "Everything and Everybody Connected to the Network" - it is an internal initiative that has profoundly impacted the company's work, and its workforce. Open Work consists of a solution suite of products, policies, and support...
Sun Deploys Siebel Solutions to Drive Revenues and Improve Sales Management, Customer Support, and Product Quality
Sun Microsystems is widely respected as one of the most innovative and successful technology companies in the world. Throughout its more than 20-year history, Sun has maintained a decentralized infrastructure and operations, allowing the company the agility to respond to different opportunities in markets worldwide. Faced with the challenges of...
Sun Enterprise Systems: A Scalable Platform for Very Large Data Warehousing With Oracle
The need for proven large-scale architectures to support the requirements for Very Large Data Warehousing (VLDW) has never been greater. Data warehouse sizes continue to grow rapidly as businesses attempt to extract more value from existing operations. This paper describes the features of the Oracle database and of Sun Fire...
Sun Network Services for SAP Solutions
Over the past several years the business environment has changed in remarkable ways. However, today, companies need the ability to make fast, accurate decisions and act upon them quickly in order to stay competitive in the face of dynamic new market forces. To do this, they need to extend their...
Business Intelligence And Data Warehousing (BIDW)
This paper briefly explains what Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BIDW) systems are, how they transform raw data into useful information, and the major trends driving businesses' need for BIDW systems today. The paper describes key user requirements for successful BIDW solutions and the infrastructure and technology Sun offers that...
Sun Micro Stops Handling Its Parts Management in Pieces
Sun fell on hard times after 2000, with the dot-com crash and a plunge in sales. When business declined, it could no longer mask the inadequacies in its organization. Sun set out to fix the problem on a number of fronts. One of its biggest efforts came in the area...
Data Warehousing: Total Cost of Ownership Research on Sun Microsystems and NCR Teradata
Ventana Research, a leading research and advisory services firm in data warehousing, business intelligence and performance management and Consensure, a leading business and economic case software and services company, conducted research into data warehousing TCO to provide insight on the costs and cost variances between two large suppliers - Sun...
Identity Enabled Networks: The Core Service Building Block For Service Oriented Architectures
This paper explores the possibilities of leveraging Standards based Identity System for a Telecommunication environment and provides a vision for the future trends in converged communication services. This paper is also based on the investigative/evaluative work done by the authors nowadays, using Sun's Identity System as a Security Framework/Environment for...
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- Incorporated: 1982
- CEO: Mr. Jonathan I. Schwartz
Sun Microsystems is a provider of network computing infrastructure product and service applications. Co.'s key brands include the Java™ technology platform, the Solaris™ operating system, Sun StorageTek™ storage applications and the UltraSPARC® processor. Co.'s network computing infrastructure applications are used in a range of industries including, but not limited to, technical/scientific, business, engineering, and telecommunications. As of June 30 2007, Co. operated in two business segments: Products, comprised of sales of computer systems products and storage products; and Services, comprised of sales from support services and professional and educational services.
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Board of Directors
Mr. Scott G. McNealy
Chairman
Mr. James H. Greene Jr.
Mr. Michael E. Marks
Mr. P. Anthony Ridder
Mr. Peter L.S. Currie
Mr. Jonathan I. Schwartz
Mr. James L. Barksdale
Mr. Stephen M. Bennett
Mr. Robert J. Finocchio Jr.
Ms. Patricia E. Mitchell
Mr. M. Kenneth Oshman
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Santa Clara, CA
650 960-1300
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