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Hey.......anybody is still in?
Just get out of SUNW, before it's too late...
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4:37PM Sun Microsystems Board Approves Growth Plan to Accelerate Return to Profitability and Sets Operating Income Growth Goals (SUNW) 4.63 +0.08 : Co announced that it's board of directors has approved a growth plan with the goal of accelerating Sun's return to consistent profitability. The plan provides for increasing investment in core technology and channel resources, while accelerating acquisition synergies and disinvestments in non-core processes and research and development activities.  The co is instituting a number of initiatives to better align expenses with its core business strategy and drive operating income goals of at least 4% of revenues for Q4FY07 and of at least 10% of revenues long-term. More specifically, the plan addresses several cost cutting initiatives including an 11-13% reduction in force and the consolidation of its real estate portfolio. These initiatives are expected to result in an annual cost savings between $480-590 mln, with the full impact expected to take effect by Q4 of fiscal 2007. SUNW expects to incur restructuring charges ranging from $340-500 mln over the next several quarters in connection with the plan.  Expected fiscal 2007 full year revenue growth in the low-to-middle single digits; fiscal 2007 gross margin of around 43%; fiscal 2007 operating expenses in the range of $5.6-6.0 bln. 

SUNW : has moved above the sideway's correction it's been in. Might be getting ready for anothewr run. Last four trading day's has been bull day's and today was best so far with 86.7 million shares traded with high of 5.10 and closed at 5.08 and a low of 4.99 bulls was in full controll. check chart it might be a good play again setting up.

Profile: http://moneycentral.msn.com/companyreport?Symbol=SUNW
Sector: Technology

After a breakout of the long term resistance around 5.35, SUNW is consolidating well above this level.
Broke short term triangle.
Average volume above 50 Million

RSI m MACD, STO and FORCE 13 going positive..

Some financials,
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=sunw

I will try to pick up some shares around 5.45

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2007 Could be the Year Tech Funds Return to the Top
By Rob Wherry Published: January 12, 2007

2007 Year of the Techs.......

Earlier last week, in a meeting room high over Times Square, Reuters analyst Ashwani Kaul rattled off a few of his earnings estimates for 2007. For the most part, what he described was an aging bull market that was running out of steam. The growth rates for sectors like basic materials, consumer cyclicals, energy and financials were all projected to cool off over the next 12 months. But then Kaul got to technology. This industry, he said, could grow tenfold this year from the dismal 2% growth rate it experienced in 2006. If true, that jump-up would be the largest of any sector he mentioned and almost twice the rate of the broader stock market.

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Sun Microsystems Has a New Sales Approach (And It's Working)
Tuesday December 26, 8:14 am ET


After reporting net losses in 16 of its last 21 quarters, Sun Microsystems finally revamped the way its sales team operates earlier this year. Sun's recent results speak to the success of its new approach to sales: sales increases of 29% and 17% year- over-year in the last two quarters and world server market share growth at the expense of its two main competitors, Hewlett-Packard and Dell (from 8.9% to 10%). Many clients were complaining that Sun's ever more complex organizational structure was making it difficult to gain the type of assistance they needed when technical problems arose. Additionally, Sun sales teams were pitching products as opposed to trying to help customers with their own particular needs. According to Tim Lieto, rehired to revamp Sun's sales approach, customers "were frustrated with our inability to communicate what we had in the lineup." When Lieto reported his findings to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Schwartz responded with several initiatives: he cut down Sun's sales teams from seven to four, assigned clients one contact at the company who would become an expert on their particulars and increased the commissions for sales of Software and other products so that the sales team stopped continuing to push only server sales, regardless of a client's needs.

The sun is shining bright again for Sun Microsystems.
Up on big volume and  down on small volume... gotta like that weekly chart.   
News CNBC
KKR involved with SUNW...cash infusion...look for the "pop"

52wk Range: 3.74 - 6.25
Volume: 168,609,647.....................
Avg Vol (3m): 58,954,400

Technicals
Most Actives
Gap Up
Percentage Gainer

Last Price Quote is:
6.22%above 13-day MA
9.90%above 50-day MA
RS Rating: 86 

Fundamentals
Analyst Upgrade to Buy

Key Data:
Market Cap (M): $17,616.48 
P/E Ratio: NA 
PEG Ratio: -45.7658 
Next Earnings: N/A
Last Analyst Rating: Buy



Sun lures KKR
Wednesday January 24, 5:25 pm ET


Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) did not need cash. It did need credibility. Allowing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' Amsterdam-listed investment fund to buy $700m of convertible notes is clearly an attempt to provide the latter. The technology company, with a market capitalisation of $21bn, must hope a vote of confidence from KKR will reassure investors and that KKR's board representative will help impose the discipline needed to meet promises to boost its profitability.


That logic is not too compelling. Sun had $4bn of net cash and equivalents at the end of December. It should have enough discipline to execute its strategy (without bringing in a grown-up to watch over the kids in the playground) and to convince sceptical investors with concrete results. Tuesday's results were a start, with margin improvement from cost cutting as well as healthy revenue growth in some server lines.

For KKR, meanwhile, the deal is a big departure. Instead of buying the whole company, KKR has taken a position without any real control - mirroring Blackstone's investment in Deutsche Telekom shares last year. That lends weight to the suspicion that private equity houses are having to push the boundaries of their investment criteria ever further in order to put their huge funds to work.

The difference for KKR is that it is buying convertible debt, not equity as Blackstone did. That limits KKR's downside risk unless Sun runs into financial trouble. Meanwhile, KKR has a geared exposure to gains if Sun's shares rise above $7.21 (they rose 7 per cent to $6.11 on Wednesday). But, given Sun's strong balance sheet, it is almost the opposite of a normal buy-out where a fund buys a fairly predictable company and takes on huge debt. In this case, the balance sheet becomes even stronger and KKR in effect takes on the technology and business risk inherent in Sun.

Changed Ticker Symbol

SUNW is no longer valid. It has changed to JAVA.

Reverse Split.......It took many years, but this has to be a record "SPLIT"!
Last Split Factor (new per old) 1:4
Last Split Date: 12-Nov-07

Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVAD) ticker symbol at the moment...

updated chart look.......

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb 03, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sun Microsystems (JAVA, Trade) today announced the expansion of its industry-leading disk storage portfolio with two new high-performance disk storage arrays that provide up to three times better price/performance than the competition and enable customers to consolidate workloads within the same data center footprint for greater efficiency. The new Sun(TM) Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arrays complement a range of server architectures, including Sun SPARC(R) Enterprise T5440 systems running the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS). To take advantage of special offers and promotions for these new storage arrays, please see http://www.sun.com/tradeins/offerings/6x80/.

The Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays are the best-performing arrays in their class and help enterprise customers seamlessly upgrade their storage infrastructure to scale storage needs within the same power and space envelope. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 arrays are ideal for midrange and high-end enterprise and throughput-intensive workloads that target database and enterprise-email applications and add intuitive, enterprise management tools at no cost through the Sun StorageTek(TM) Common Array Manager software. Customers have already started to leverage Sun's industry-leading upgrade and trade-in programs, which uncover hidden equity in a customer's current IT infrastructure by giving trade-up allowances for both Sun and competitor products.

The Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays help enterprise customers seamlessly upgrade their storage infrastructure to scale storage needs within the same power and space envelope. The Sun StorageTek 6780 modular array performed well against similarly configured competitor on industry benchmarks: (for more information, please see www.storageperformance.org/results)

-- Demonstrated nearly four times better response times at 1/4th the latency;

-- Over three times better price/performance;

-- Showed over two times better performance;

-- Delivers 48% more IOPS/drive;

-- and notched the best SPC-2 performance of any sub-$250,000 system.

"Today's enterprise storage manager can't afford to cut corners when it comes to managing data growth and requirements to protect storage investments. Customers need storage and archive solutions that take cost out and allow organizations to do more work in the same data center foot print while realizing significant savings in power, cooling and rack space," said Jason Schaffer, senior director of Systems product management, Sun Microsystems.

New Storage Arrays Bring Value, Investment Protection to the Market:

-- Sun Storage 6580 Array - Offers improved response time remains versus previous generations, the best price-performance array in its class and these product specifications: up to 256 disks (256 TB), eight 4Gb FC host ports, 8GB Cache, 16 expansion trays per controller, an intermix of SATA and FC drives and support of RAID 6.

-- Sun Storage 6780 Array - Positioned above the Sun Storage 6500 line, the Sun Storage 6780 offers two times the IOPS and four times the throughput performance over the 6500 class of arrays. Product specifications include up to 448 disks (448 TB), eight or 16 4Gb FC host ports, 16GB cache, 28 expansion trays per controller, an intermix of SATA and FC drives and support of RAID 6.

Sun's modular arrays are at the heart of its continued momentum in the disk storage market. Sun recently announced its fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth for total disk storage systems sales with a 25 percent year-over-year (YoY) increase in factory revenue, according the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, 3Q08. Sun shared the top spot for year-over-year revenue growth for external disk systems during the third quarter of 2008 and outperformed the overall market by almost two times.

Pricing and Availability

The Sun Storage 6580 Array controller unit is also available immediately at a list price of $59,995. The Sun Storage 6780 Array controller unit is available immediately at a list price of $89,995. U.S. list price; subject to change without notice.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, StorageTek and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

(1) In a recent Sun Storage 6780 SPC audited publication, it achieved 58,158.69 SPC-1 IOPS @ *$6.62* $/SPC-1 IOPS**, 4,818.43 SPC-2 MBPS @ *$53.61 *$/SPC-2 MBPS with RAID 5 protection**, and 4,675.50 SPC-2 MBPS* @ $55.25* $/SPC-2 MBPS with RAID 6 protection** For more information, please visit the Storage Performance Council website: http://www.storageperformance.org/

SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.


 
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Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems
APRIL 20, 2009, 4:00 P.M. ET

Oracle Corp. announced a deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion, a surprise union of software and hardware companies that emerged following failed talks for International Business Machines Corp. to buy Sun.

Oracle, which has been snapping up smaller software companies for several years, agreed to pay $9.50 a share for Sun. The companies valued the transaction at about $5.6 billion, excluding Sun's cash and debt. As of Dec. 28, Sun had about $2.6 billion in cash and short-term investments and about $700 million in long-term debt.

Sun, whose server systems have long been sold along with Oracle's database software, was widely believed to need a bigger partner as it competes with giants such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. Another much larger company, Cisco Systems Inc., also recently entered the server business.

The Sun deal helps elevate Oracle into those ranks, giving the company the ability to sell hardware as well as more fully exploit some important Sun software -- notably the popular Java programming technology and Sun's Solaris operating systems.

.Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, in a conference call described Java as "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." As a result of the deal, he expects Oracle to be able to offer customers application programs, computers and data-storage hardware in a bundle that will be tuned to help solve their problems.


There is no question in my mind that this transaction redefines the industry," Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman and co-founder, said during the conference call.

Sun, of Santa Clara, Calif., had suffered from erratic profitability and revenue problems since a boom phase ended with the collapse of the dot-com bubble. The company is believed to have talked to a several potential acquirers. IBM emerged in mid-March as the prime candidate following talks that had stretched on for months.

Those discussions recently foundered. People familiar with the situation said one problem stemmed from expected delays in getting antitrust clearance for the deal, which led Sun to press IBM for guarantees it wouldn't abandon the transaction. Oracle is likely to face fewer problems, since it is in fewer businesses in competition with Sun.

Sun's stock has been whipsawed since word of the IBM talks broke several weeks ago. IBM had been initially expected to offer $10 to $11 a share--a premium of more than 100% over Sun's market value at the time--though the last figure cited during the negotiations by people familiar with matter was $9.40.


Though Sun posted losses in three of its last four quarters, Oracle executives insist that it can make the transaction pay off quickly. They estimated that Sun will contribute more than $1.5 billion to Oracle's operating profit--excluding charges and other items--in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year.

Oracle said that would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per-share contribution in the first year than the company had planned for the combined contributions of three of its biggest acquisitions--PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and BEA Systems.

"We have a track record of integrating acquisitions very quickly, and this will be no different," said Safra Catz, one of two Oracle presidents under Mr. Ellison.

Some analysts said they were stunned by the move, since Oracle has long left it to others to build computers while concentrating on the more-profitable software business. Last year, when it began offering a server integrated with its database software, it did so through an alliance with Hewlett-Packard.

"The last thing you expected was a database-software company to buy a hardware customer base," said Bruce Richardson, an analyst at AMR Research in Boston. "It's shocking."


He added that the move makes Oracle "a gorilla" in the market for computing infrastructure products. He questions whether Oracle will hold on to Sun's hardware assets or try to sell them in a separate deal later.

But Ms. Catz said Oracle intends to make Sun's hardware operations as a profitable operating unit inside Oracle.

The companies said they expect the transaction to close this summer, subject to Sun stockholder approval and other conditions. There was no mention in the conference call of the roles of Mr. McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, following the transaction.

Mr. Schwartz said the transaction puts Oracle in a position to "solve a broader set of problems than any other company on earth."


IBM is "highly unlikely" to reenter the bidding for Sun, according to people familiar with the matter.

Sun Microsystems (JAVA 9.15 +2.46) and Oracle (ORCL 18.82 -0.24) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which ORCL will acquire JAVA common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 bln, or $5.6 bln net of Sun's cash and debt.