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.
"For one thing, Sun makes us uncomfortable, " says one IBM executive.
For his recruits, one season before entering the NBA. For the Atlantic Sun, one game before bowing out of the Big Dance.
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.
" The second one is "Devils on the Doorstep, " and the third one is "The Sun Also Rises.
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.
No-one knows how the Sun's enormous magnetic fields are generated, or why they reverse polarity from positive to negative every 11 years.
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.
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.
You can hear it on the ruckus arrival of one Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records.
Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame.
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.
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.
"It matches the weather - but we still have sun, " one customer enthused, looking at the dizzying range of 36 mounds of gelato on display.
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.
Sun's one experiment with a national brand, Viking, flopped.
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.
When Burns visited the Baltimore Sun this summer, one employee jokingly asked him if he would make a film about newspapers.
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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.
The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that astronomers are now confident that every star in the Milky Way galaxy is sun to at least one planet.
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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.
After the 2007 decision by Sun Microsystems for a one-to-four reverse split, shares ended up losing 80% of their value in following year before eventually being acquired by Oracle ( ORCL).
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