"For one thing, Sun makes us uncomfortable, " says one IBM executive.
One former Sun executive said Mr. Hurd's history of negotiating with component suppliers such as Intel Corp.
He describes a server upgrade on one of Sun's own data centers last June that turned 22 outmoded servers into 11 modern machines, whose processors run at a slower speed but are capable of far more simultaneous tasks.
" The second one is "Devils on the Doorstep, " and the third one is "The Sun Also Rises.
For his recruits, one season before entering the NBA. For the Atlantic Sun, one game before bowing out of the Big Dance.
You have climbed the hills with me to the mountain shelter, taken off the days one by one, setting them to breathe in the sun.
The Sony PlayStation contains a chip more powerful than one in a Sun workstation.
On the one day the sun came out, we took a drive around Monrovia.
Now only visible with the largest ground-based telescopes or from space, 1999 RQ36 currently lies about one earth-sun distance away.
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It all looks nice at a passing glance, but as we gazed more closely, we noticed some wavy stitching in places on the dash, a loose seam on one of the sun visors and a number of pieces made from somewhat cheap-feeling plastic.
No-one knows how the Sun's enormous magnetic fields are generated, or why they reverse polarity from positive to negative every 11 years.
You can hear it on the ruckus arrival of one Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records.
Flo-Sun bought one in New York from a Canadian firm earlier this year.
Stanley Ho Hung Sun said one thing, and then appeared to do something completely different just a few hours later.
Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.
To get around the problem of tomatoes that aren't ripened in the sun, one chef in Cadiz roasts his tomatoes to access a deeper flavor.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest producer of memory chips, closed its wafer-fabrication plant and gave its employees one week off to enjoy sun and sand.
Retiring to one of these communities (Sun City alone has bred a dozen places with the same name) has become almost a routine part of middle-class life.
One late afternoon as the sun turned golden yellow and the Pastor fixed the roof of the shelter, a man walked up to us and stood beside me.
Just as Major League Baseball is moving to shake off its steroid cloud under the warmth of spring-training sun, one of its biggest former stars continues to cast a shadow over the sport.
Finally, there is another potential obstacle to any successful sale, which is that Lloyds has been told by one of the bidders, Sun Capital, that it has chronically underestimated the computer and systems costs of separating Verde.
Three elephant corpses lay piled on top of one another under the scorching Kenyan sun.
The lure of spending time under the Tuscan sun makes it one of the most visited regions in Italy, with nearly 50 million tourists a year.
"It matches the weather - but we still have sun, " one customer enthused, looking at the dizzying range of 36 mounds of gelato on display.
One surface, which faces the sun, is covered in microscopic pits.
Traditionally, a formal, summer garden-party dress did two things: it looked light and uplifting, while keeping all the bits one might generally expose to the sun covered.
But the host is likely to be between 3, 000 and one million times fainter than the Sun, so the top of the planet's atmosphere is likely to be colder than Pluto.
Sun's one experiment with a national brand, Viking, flopped.
One theory is that the summer sun melts ice on the surface of the glacier which creates pools of water which then flow into moulins -- narrow tubular shafts in the glacier.
"This is a slam-dunk tier-one partnership for us, " says Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy.
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