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     Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 963 Registered: 10-2003 |
• Citigroup analyst raises Sun Micro rating to buy at MarketWatch (Tue 9:56am) (New symbol is JAVA) | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 929 Registered: 10-2003 |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. begins trading Monday under the 'JAVA' ticker symbol, following a trend adopted by more companies wanting stock tickers to reflect their products. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 911 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW up more than 11% after hours: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that beat Wall Street's expectations as the server and software maker benefited from lower expenses and increased adoption of its open-source operating system. Sun said it earned $329 million, or 9 cents per share, for the quarter ended June 30. That compares with a loss of $301 million, or 9 cents per share, during the same period last year. Revenues were $3.84 billion, a slight increase from the $3.83 billion in sales the Santa Clara-based company had last year. Excluding stock-based compensation and other one-time charges, Sun's net income was still 9 cents per share, which was 4 cents above the average estimate of 5 cents per share from analysts polled by Thomson Financial. Revenues were in line with analyst estimates. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 779 Registered: 10-2003 |
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street bounded higher Wednesday, lifting the Nasdaq composite index well over 1 percent after profit reports from Yahoo Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. restored investors' confidence in the tech sector. The Dow Jones industrials logged fresh trading and closing highs. Sun Microsystems, a maker of server and storage products, rose 49 cents, or 8.7 percent, to $6.15 after the company reported its first quarterly profit in years as revenue increased. Earnings were above what Wall Street expected | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 774 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW for ever !! Sun Microsystems, a maker of server and storage products, rose 35 cents, or 6.1 percent, to $6.01 after the company reported its first quarterly profit in years as revenue increased. Earnings were above what Wall Street expected. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 652 Registered: 10-2003 |
The sun also rises: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW : Sun Microsystems Inc News , chart, profile, more Last: 5.55+0.19+3.51% 10:44am 10/27/2006 SUNW5.55, +0.19, +3.5%) shares rose as much as 4% Friday after the computer server and software maker narrowed its fiscal first-quarter loss and moved closer to profitability. Sun shares rose 19 cents to $5.56 after the company reported on Thursday a loss of $56 million, or 2 cents a share, on revenue of $3.19 billion. During the year-ago period, Sun lost $123 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $2.73 billion. Sun said its revenue improved due to better sales of hardware systems and storage-technology devices. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 643 Registered: 10-2003 |
• Coverage initiated on Sun Microsystems by Prudential | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 628 Registered: 10-2003 |
• Coverage initiated on Sun Microsystems by Prudential Briefing.com (Thu 6:25am) | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 557 Registered: 10-2003 |
• Sun Microsystems upgraded by Bear Stearns Briefing.com (Wed 7:07am) | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 487 Registered: 10-2003 |
UBS upgraded computer hardware giant Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW : Sun Microsystems) SUNW4.55, +0.13, +2.9%) to buy from neutral, saying it is optimistic about the company's cost-saving potential and that it may soon reveal a plan that could include 5,000 job cuts. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 486 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW up today in a down market: Sun Microsystems upgraded by UBS Briefing.com (Tue 7:16am) | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 155 Registered: 10-2003 |
hares of Sun Microsystems (SUNW:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) shot upward again Tuesday, propelled by news a day earlier of a "collaborative effort" with Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) to be announced Tuesday. After moving 26 cents higher on Monday, shares of Sun recently gained another 27 cents, or 6.1%, to $4.46. Google shares were up 45 cents to $319.13. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 152 Registered: 10-2003 |
From SmartMoney.com : "Sun Microsystems (SUNW: 4.19 0.26) shares basked in Google's reflected glory, rallying after the hardware maker promised to unveil an unspecified "collaborative effort" at a Tuesday press conference featuring the bosses of both companies." | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 55 Registered: 10-2003 |
Wed 6:43am SUNW Sun Microsystems upgraded by First Albany - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 53 Registered: 10-2003 |
From AP: "Sun Microsystems Inc. reported earnings of a penny a share, in line with analysts' expectations. The stock closed regular trading unchanged, at $3.85, then rose 14 cents to $3.96 in extended trading." | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 169 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sun Microsystems Inc. surged 12.2 percent, or 42 cents, to $3.86 after a published report said the high-end computer company was discussing a leveraged buyout with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 163 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sun Microsystems (NasdaqNM:SUNW - News) shares may be in focus following a report that Scott McNealy, the company's CEO and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners are considering taking the company private. The Inside Wall Street column published by Business Week cited a hedge fund manager, who put the leveraged buyout offer at between $5 and $5.50 a share. Spokespersons for both Sun and Silver Lake declined comment, the report added. Shares closed Thursday at $3.44. | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 79 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thu 1:25pm SUNW Coverage initiated on Sun Microsystems by AG Edwards - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1687 Registered: 10-2003 |
Tue 7:50am SUNW Coverage initiated on Sun Microsystems by Deutsche Securities - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1670 Registered: 10-2003 |
Fri 8:16am SUNW Sun Microsystems upgraded by Bernstein - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1616 Registered: 10-2003 |
Mon 8:27am SUNW Sun Microsystems downgraded by Bernstein - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1529 Registered: 10-2003 |
Welcome, jfhet [Sign Out] My Yahoo! View - Customize Financial News Enter symbol(s) BasicPerformanceReal-time MktDetailedChartResearchOptionsOrder Book Symbol Lookup Press Release Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Wraps 2004 with Strongest Product Portfolio in Company's History Thursday November 18, 11:00 am ET Lead-with-Innovation Strategy Pays Off as Customers Around the World Choose Sun for Everything from Chip Multithreading and Utility Computing to Solaris(TM) 10 and Java(TM) SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - News) today announced that in 2004 it rolled out the most innovative systems portfolio in the company's 20-plus year history. Through its quarterly Network Computing launch cycle, Sun has demonstrated its commitment to delivering customer value through breakthrough Network Computing solutions that address critical business needs like complexity, interoperability, scalability and simplicity. The company's totally refreshed product and services lineup is already changing industry dynamics and being applauded by customers and partners around the world. "The breadth of Sun's lineup today is stronger than at any time in Sun's history and our competition is sitting up and taking note," said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and chief operating officer. "Sun's unwavering dedication to R&D enables us to supply our customers with technology and innovative pricing models that give them a competitive edge. The future of Network Computing will be driven by those willing to buck the status quo, conquer existing cultural barriers and shift capital away from today's fixed-cost models and closed systems." Schwartz adds: "As bandwidth commoditizes, companies are leveraging the vast economies of scale delivered by outside providers of standards-based 'Net services such as computing power, applications, and Internet infrastructure. Sun's transparent pricing, coupled with vendor-neutral technology, is providing the roadmap for our customers to get ahead of this trend and be the leaders of tomorrow." Over the past year, Sun has introduced hundreds of innovative products and services in its quarterly launch cycle that have helped customers reduce the cost and complexity of doing business over the network: -- The Launch of the Solaris 10 Operating System. With over 600 new innovations including ZFS file storage, Dynamic Tracing (D-Trace), containers and the best UNIX(R) to Linux interoperability, Solaris 10 sets a new benchmark for operating system performance, vendor neutrality and security. Sun also added 140 business software applications for Solaris 10 to the already 12,000 plus available to Solaris users. -- Sun Fire Systems Refresh with UltraSPARC(R) IV and Opteron. Optimized for chip multithreading, Sun's dual core UltraSPARC IV processor has revamped Sun's entire UltraSPARC family of systems enabling enterprises to "scale up" to nearly twice the horsepower of previous Sun systems in the same footprint and featuring better price-performance than IBM and HP offerings. This year also saw the introduction of the AMD Opteron processor into Sun Fire(TM) systems. Running 32-bit and 64-bit applications, Sun's Opteron processor-based server is 45 percent faster than comparable systems and runs Solaris, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux or Windows operating systems with Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) certifications. Sun continued to innovate in blade computing with the new dual processor x86 Sun Fire B200x Blade Server (with Intel Xeon processors) and the N1(TM) Grid Provisioning Server 3.1 Blades Edition. A new Netra(TM) 440 server is the industry's lowest-priced, ruggedized, four-way UltraSPARC server. -- Innovative New Storage Systems. Designed to help mid-market and enterprise customers simplify and improve data management, protection and compliance, Sun's extensive revamp of its storage systems includes everything from a revolutionary midrange storage system that sets a new standard in scalability and price/performance and a new high-end enterprise storage platform with breakthrough virtualization, replication and data movement capabilities to the Sun StorEdge(TM) 5210 NAS device. -- New Subscription Models Make Flexible Computing a Reality. Sun took a lead in Utility Computing with the introduction of subscription-based Sun(SM) Preventive Services, Sun(TM) Utility Computing for StorEdge Systems, Utility Computing for High-End Grid and a new subscription-based pricing model for Solaris giving customers access to services, storage, software and grids of computing power as easily as buying utility services such as phone, power or water. -- Java Stays Hot as Leading Development Platform in Industry. The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5 (J2SE(TM) 5) is the most significant upgrade to the Java platform and programming language since its initial release nearly a decade ago. With its integration into the Solaris 10 operating system and having been made available to other operating systems, Sun Java Enterprise System is the most vendor-neutral development platform in the industry. The Solaris 10 universal support for development tools and Java development platforms capped a year that included the introduction of Sun Java Enterprise System Release 2, Sun Java System RFID Software, and Sun Java Desktop System Release 2 as well as new tools like Sun Java Studio Enterprise, Sun Studio Creator and Sun Studio 8 bringing improved performance and productivity to developers. -- Other announcements included: -- A new update to Sun Cluster software, Sun's high availability platform for improved predictability and resilience of business critical applications. -- The introduction of the Sun N2000 Series Secure Application Switch, a powerful new technology based on Sun's Nauticus Networks acquisition that delivers the highest performing platform for cross-enterprise application delivery in the industry. -- The announcement of 20 new Sun Reference Architectures and Solutions including the Solaris optimized data center program that enable customers to gain quicker access to information and improve business intelligence, advance data center efficiency and achieve 70 percent scale out utilization at a fraction of the cost. For more information on Sun's 2004 Network Computer events, please visit www.sun.com/news. Sun's next Network Computing event is slated for early February, 2005. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - News) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com . NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, N1, StorEdge, Java and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company Ltd. CONTACT: Sabrina Guttman Sun Microsystems, Inc. +1-650-786-0323 sabrina.guttman@sun.com www.sun.com/news allpress@sun.com +1-650-786-7737 | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1517 Registered: 10-2003 |
Mon 7:34am SUNW Sun Microsystems upgraded by Thomas Weisel - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1464 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW reports from Paris CARTES, more than 750 million cards deployed: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041102/sftu070_1.html | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1399 Registered: 10-2003 |
Sun Microsystems upgraded by Bear Stearns Fri 7:17am - Briefing.com | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1398 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW up: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist= yhoo&guid=%7BA2392DDD%2D84BF%2D4919%2D9639%2D9F0A59D63D05%7D | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1290 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW has been rising, reached 4.10 at one time yesterday in higher volume and change is brewing http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/general/2004/09/21/generalbhsuper_2004_09 _21_INHT_0000-1313-KEYWORD.Missing.html?partner=yahoo&referrer= | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1262 Registered: 10-2003 |
From Forbes today: Standard & Poor's reiterated a "hold" rating on Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) after the company disclosed in a regulatory filing that fiscal fourth-quarter earnings per share were reduced by about 1 cent. Sun, which had previously reported earnings of 24 cents, or a loss of 5 cents per share on an operating basis, said the change was due to a revision in accounting for a settlement with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and to reflect asset impairment obligations from leased facilities. S&P said, "However, the Microsoft settlement and impairment obligations were not included in our model, which is based on operating results, and so, there is no change to our fiscal 2005 operating estimate of breakeven." The research firm said that with Sun trading at a price-to-sales ratio of 1.2 times, in line with peers, and with cash/investments of $7.5 billion, Sun is "worth holding." | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1211 Registered: 10-2003 |
hope for SUNW ? http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040903/laf042_1.html | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1112 Registered: 10-2003 |
well it's better than nothing and SUNW IS CHEAP: "• Coverage initiated on Sun Microsystems by CIBC Wrld Mkts Thu 7:06am - Briefing.com " | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1084 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW offers new products: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040726/tech_sunmicrosystems_1.html | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1063 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW improving, stock down in yesterday's tech debacle: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist= yhoo&guid=%7B8E3632AC%2D2BFE%2D4531%2DAE67%2D76F1D43FC000%7D | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1056 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW is in the process of turning around according to Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2004/07/21/0721autofacescan02.html?partner= yahoo&referrer= | ||
| Jfh Moderator Username: Jfh Post Number: 1052 Registered: 10-2003 |
SUNW doing much better: http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/040720/tech_sunmicrosystems_earns_5.html |
