As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2. This entry focuses on the second, Com...

As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2. This entry focuses on the first, Tech...

As consumer spending slows across the world, a variety of "brick and mortar" retailers are clearly feeling the impact. Foot traffic is slowing, and it's getting harder to balance debt laden real estate portfolios and fickle consumer trends. For consumer product manufacturers, retail distribution is ...

I thought I'd share a note I sent earlier in the week to Sun's leaders - about the turmoil we're seeing in the markets, and how I want our team focusing their efforts. _______________________________________________________________________________ Begin forwarded message: From: Jonathan Schwartz Dat...

There are only two kinds of storage devices - those that have failed, and those that are about to fail. That's the view most datacenters have about the traditionally mechanical devices pejoratively referred to as "spinning rust." All disk drives fail, cheap drives fail faster. If the average time to...

As you're probably aware, we've been working very hard to rebuild the community, and the momentum, around all our software assets at Sun, most notably the Solaris operating system. Why notably Solaris? As a systems company, the operating system (OS) is among the most important lenses through which o...

We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB. If you're interested in the financial details for the quarter, tune in to our conference call (see details on sun.com) today - we'll obviously have more to say as w...