Comments on: Sun gambles big as outlook darkens

By: sylvie chen, aukland, new zealand

sylvie chen, aukland, new zealand — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:41:57 +0000

a reverse split is a bargain with the devil. Acquire the company for a nickel on the dollar just for the patents and IP. Do a top down mgt cleansing using the same 4-1 reverse split (remove 3, keep 1, use a lottery model since it won't make any difference).

As for flash storage, what for? Itube videos? Give me a break.

By: Angela, LA, CA

Angela, LA, CA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:36:34 +0000

After its substantial, recent layoffs, SUN hopefully got rid of the bad apples and can at some point hire leaders who can turn the ship around. Otherwise it's bad news.

By: anonymous, santa clara, ca

anonymous, santa clara, ca — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:01:54 +0000

Sun needs to look at its Executives. Notice it is never mgmt that gets caught up in these cuts, since they are the decision makers. Obviously the decisions have not been the right ones. So lets promote them and cut the valuable workers. They are too top heavy, with many of them being empty seats.

By: Kendal, Calgary, AB

Kendal, Calgary, AB — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:48:15 +0000

If Apple encountered some of Sun's patents selling in a Dollar Store then I think they should give them a read and maybe buy a few, but I'd leave all the Sun staff to new Dollar store jobs.

By: Counsel

Counsel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:10:12 +0000

Dear drdolittle:

All your patents are belongs to us.

Mr. Billingsly

By: Jack, Pittsburgh PA

Jack, Pittsburgh PA — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:46:04 +0000

So what??? Flash based storage has been around since 1992. What's so new about this iteration?

By: Frank Lewis, Santa Clara, CA

Frank Lewis, Santa Clara, CA — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:26:56 +0000

After 20 years at Sun I recently left. The problem at Sun is its executive management team. It lacks any and all courage to make some hard and right decisions. There is a tremendous mutual job protection going on. I have never seen so much incompetence at such high levels – but that's all going to history real soon.

By: drdolittle, SE of TX

drdolittle, SE of TX — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:30:39 +0000

I believe more on SUN than HP (talking about storage) … I've worked on companies (past and present) and have used their SAN … i got more crashed on storagework than storage tek!!!

By: Molly Foggar San Jose CA

Molly Foggar San Jose CA — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:59:43 +0000

I have worked for both Sun and Apple:

A) Sun can't get a product out the door to save their lives

B) Apple has no use for Sun. What the eff would they do with them? Worthless

By: Yacko Woonsocket, RI

Yacko Woonsocket, RI — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:45:12 +0000

>Time to disband SUN, Fire the Engineers and

>sell the pieces to Dell, Compaq/HP etc of

>what’s left of it !!!!

I really wish Apple would buy SUN. They got the cash. They would acquire another but different unix base (AT&T), the storage future and ZFS, which is open, but they would gain the top dog role in its development. Is the real estate and staff and intangibles worth 3bn?? Sigh, probably not.