Sun Carbon Copies Another Q4 and Fiscal Year
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While the company has the technical chops to compete with the best of the server and operating system makers left in the world, for whatever reason Sun Microsystems does not seem to have the marketing team, sales force, reseller channel, and price/performance advantages to turn that very good engineering work into increased sales and profits. The ending to fiscal 2008 on June 31 was a virtual carbon copy of the prior year's fourth quarter and full year, with some wiggling here and there in terms of sales and profits. But Sun has not pushed ahead financially as many inside and outside the company had expected--and an even larger number of investors had hoped. READ MORE >

Q&A with IBM's Ross Mauri: Talking Power Systems and Power7
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Back in early 2006, one of the up-and-coming executives at IBM was tapped to become the general manager of the company's fast-growing pSeries Unix server and workstation business line. Two reorganizations and two years later, and that executive, Ross Mauri, a graduate of Marist College--one of the hotbeds of academic mainframia--who aspired once to merely be an MVS systems programmer at Big Blue, found himself in charge of a very big piece of IBM. Perhaps the most important part, too. READ MORE >

Sun Delivers AMP Stack for Solaris and Linux, Windows Coming
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Just after IT Jungle went on hiatus for a little rest and relaxation in the hot New York City summer, Sun Microsystems announced a so-called AMP stack--short for Apache, MySQL, and Perl/Python/PHP--for the Solaris and Linux operating systems. READ MORE >

As I See It: Babes in Broadband
by Victor Rozek

A couple of years back, my wife got frustrated with our glacially slow Internet connection and called Qwest, our telephone service provider, to see if anything could be done--preferably before the next millennium. After spending the obligatory eon in automated phone-support hell, then being shuffled to an assortment of earnest but useless people, she was finally dumped on the marketing department. READ MORE >