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Volume 3, Number 21 -- June 8, 2006
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Sun Lays Off Up to 5,000 Employees, Banks on Revenue Rise
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Sun Microsystems' new chief executive officer, Jonathan Schwartz, said that he would be moving pretty fast to do an in-depth analysis of what the company should focus on and how the company should be restructured for growth and profitability, and while The Unix Guardian was on hiatus, Sun announced that it would be laying off up to 5,000 of its employees to cut costs and get profitable as quickly as it can. And for the first time in a long time, Sun is making revenue and profit forecasts for the future. READ MORE >

HP Scales Down NonStop Servers to Chase New Customers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Having made the jump from MIPS R Series processors to Itanium chips from Intel in its NonStop line of fault tolerant servers last summer after years of coding, Hewlett-Packard has quickly repackaged its entry rx Series servers and added some NonStop functionality to create a smaller NonStop server line with better bang for the buck in an effort to expand its customers base for these exotic Unix machines. READ MORE >


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VMware Offers New Packaging and Pricing with ESX Server 3
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

VMware, the virtual infrastructure software subsidiary of disk array maker EMC, this week launched its much-awaited ESX Server 3 virtual machine hypervisor for X86 and X64 servers as well as a new way of packaging the software and its various add-ons. And, because the open source Xen hypervisor, created by XenSource, is gaining steam in the Linux markets and Microsoft is giving away its Virtual Server 2005 partitioning software, the new ESX Server software also includes some price changes, too. READ MORE >


The Cult of Numerology
by Mary Lou Roberts

When the verdict was announced on May 25 of Enron demons Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling--Lay guilty on all six counts of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud against him, and Skilling guilty on 19 counts of similar charges--much of the world cheered. I didn't. I hadn't expected my own reaction which was simply to feel saddened for us and for them. READ MORE >



 

 

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But Wait, There's More:

Survey Says Java Developers Like Open Source Databases . . . Cray Warns Q2 Down Significantly, Affirms Guidance for Year . . . IBM, Argus Systems Get EAL4+ Certification on AIX-PitBull Combo . . . Sun Labs Will Step Up Innovation for Commercialization . . . Dell Launches Generation 9 of PowerEdge Servers . . . IDC Projects Disk Array Capacity to Keep Exploding Through 2010 . . .


 

 

Reader Feedback and Insights

We value your feedback and insights.  Feel free to send a letter to the editor.  Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >


 
Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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