Intel, Linux darken power of Sun - was The Eclipse of Sun (Microsystems)

At 11:30 2003.06.17, you wrote:
>Re. Economically-Appropriate InfoSystems Infrastructure Development,
>excerpts below from a 911-word report entitled
>"Intel, Linux darken power of Sun", in The Seattle Times, by Matthew Fordahl
>Associated Press, Monday, June 16, 2003 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.,
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/135003734_btsunmicro16.html
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><excerpts>
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>SAN JOSE, Calif. — It was the leading supplier of the computer servers
>that fueled the dot-com boom, the Silicon Valley star whose name was
>nearly synonymous with New Economy chic.
>
>But after two years on the bleeding edge of the bust, Sun Microsystems has
>fallen victim to the commoditization of the computers that do corporate
>America's heavy lifting.
>
>Sun is deep in identity crisis as its executives try to reinvent the
>company. There's been loose talk of Sun as a possible takeover target, and
>some analysts are wondering whether it will ever return to the days of
>strong revenue growth and record profits.
>[...]
> Sun's servers are being squeezed by the increasing power of so-called
> commodity chips from Intel and low-cost operating systems like Linux that
> only a few years ago could not approach the performance of the company's
> Sparc microprocessors and Unix-based Solaris operating system.
>[...]
>At Sun's headquarters, at the site of an abandoned insane asylum [?!? ;)]
>in Santa Clara, Calif., morale is showing signs of a rebound from the low
>point of about six months ago — when layoffs by the thousands and the
>departures of key executives left remaining employees wondering whether
>Sun was moving in the wrong direction.
>[...]
>Sun still has to convince outsiders that it can both survive and thrive.
>It will take time for Sun's strategies — and an above-average research and
>development budget at 15 percent of revenue — to pay off.
>
>Java also could pay off if Sun's $1 billion private antitrust lawsuit
>against Microsoft is won or settled favorably, though some consider the
>case a distraction.
>
>Sun needs "a little less rhetoric about the guys in Redmond and a little
>more thinking about who the real competitors are," said Charles Rutstein,
>a Forrester analyst.
><end>
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