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Sun Spotlights Its 2004 Channel Roadmap
Sun Microsystems’ premier iForce partners gather in San Diego today for a four-day summit in which company executives will lay out their channel roadmap for the coming year. This year’s summit comes on the heels of a rocky week in which Sun was buffeted by a dismal earnings report, corporate restructuring, and rumors—which proved unfounded—that…
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IT Struggles to Sustain Recovery on Wall Street
When IBM Corp. announced solid—but not stellar—financial results last week, some investors were disappointed. Instead of rising on the earnings news, IBM shares declined roughly 1 percent for the week ended April 19. Still, solutions providers should take heart. While most investors focused on IBM’s hardware and consulting revenue, I prefer to look at the…
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Channel Zone News Round-up–Week of April 12
Friday, April 16 Sun Acquires Kealia, Marks Return of First Employee SANTA CLARA, CA — Sun Microsystems completed the acquisition of Kealia, a Palo Alto, Calif. company established to develop advanced computer system design. Kealia was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim, who was a co-founder of Sun and its vice president of technology from…
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Integrators Retain Faith in Sun’s Recovery
Sun Microsystems Inc.’s long struggle to return to profitability hasn’t shaken the loyalty of Solaris system integrators to the company’s computer architecture—or to its future. “I have great faith in the Sun software architecture,” said Victor Schrader, president of Schrader & Associates LLC, a systems integrator and developer of secure messaging systems and client/server applications…
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Pressure on Sun Rises as Earnings Continue Slide
After posting another quarter of poor earnings, Sun Microsystems Inc. faces more pressure than ever from both shareholders and IT customers to prove that it can recover the position it once held as a prospering computer company, technology analysts said on Thursday. While Sun has begun taking many of the right strategic and business operations…
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Sun Executives Signal New Corporate Direction
Sun Microsystems’s new president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz, formerly the company’s software chief, said Thursday that he would consolidate Sun’s microprocessors, enterprise systems and SPARC-based volume systems initiatives. The announcement was the latest in a series of sweeping changes announced since Sun’s pre-earning report April 2 in which the company signaled its third-quarter…
