On Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that they had successfully recruited Dr. Thomas Lee to serve as the Director of the Microsystems Technology Office.
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Microsoft has countered Adobe's AIR and Flex technologies with its own development tools called Live Mesh and Silverlight. (Sun Microsystems in May launched similar technology called JavaFX, and Google has a tool out called Gears.) Microsoft has 4 million software developers already using its .
To staunch the red ink, Novells board had recently installed Eric Schmidt, the youngish former technology officer for Sun Microsystems, as CEO.
Fittingly, Schmidt had abundant experience struggling against Microsoft in his two previous jobs: He was chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems , then chief executive of Novell , two companies that thought, wrongly, they had Microsoft licked.
Fittingly, Schmidt had abundant experience struggling against Microsoft in his two previous jobs: He was chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ), then chief executive of Novell (nasdaq: NOVL - news - people ), two companies that thought, wrongly, they had Microsoft licked.
Shares in profitable technology providers such as Cisco, Oracle or Sun Microsystems are doing well.
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To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.
As Lehman Brothers ' bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch 's acquisition by Bank of America sent investors scurrying for safety Monday, technology vendors ranging from microprocessor company Advanced Micro Devices to server vendor Sun Microsystems began to feel pain.
The technology sector was slammed, after takeover talks between International Business Machines and Sun Microsystems broke down over the weekend.
That's the conclusion of Banc of America Securities technology analyst Keith Bachman, who reiterated a "neutral" rating on Sun Microsystems shares.
That's the conclusion of Banc of America Securities technology analyst Keith Bachman, who reiterated a "neutral" rating on Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) shares.
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