Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) last week released a switch known as the DCX platform, built by San Jose, Calif.
Schwartz adds that Rotenberg himself accepts money from companies, including Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and RSA, for speaking engagements.
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.
Forbes.com is watching the storage sector today, ahead of Sun Microsystems' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people) mid-third-quarter conference call, which is due out after today's closing bell.
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Smaller player 3Com's deal more resembles the kind of alliances Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) is striking with consultancies to present customers with a full-service offering.
Sun's (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people) stock had already been slipping lately, as investors made negative assumptions about the mid-quarter update conference call that company officials will hold tomorrow.
Server maker Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) already tout their products' power-saving credentials.
Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ), Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ) and scores of other firms sell Linux-based computers.
Fujitsu, which also sells computers using Sun Microsystems ' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) solaris operating system, is hoping enough companies have ported 32-bit systems to 64 bits so that it can attract more business than HP did initially.
And Sun Microsystems' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) executive vice president of services, Patricia Sueltz , says she travels an average of 1, 000 miles a week evangelizing its services business, which accounts for one third of overall revenue.
One way it expects to reach these goals is to replace all of its Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) systems worldwide with its own Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) servers running Linux.
The chip had the support of computer makers, including Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) and Fujitsu-Siemens .
It used its power, the court ruled, to thwart initiatives by companies such as Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people), Compaq Computer (nyse: CPQ - news - people) and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HP - news - people)--powerful firms in their own right.
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.
HP, Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ), International Business Machines (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) are desperate to counter their customers' anger and loss of faith by proving they can make computing cheaper and more efficient.
Both Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Utility Data Center model and Sun Microsystems ' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) N1 approach stress filling computers with the heaviest possible workloads--a change from the standard model of buying new servers when they run at 30% of capacity, for fear of hitting the occasional spike in activity.
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