Jonathan Schwartz
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Sun’s missing mojo: MIA until when?
Insight commentary Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz keeps painting a sunny picture. Then come more losses, layoffs, and letdowns.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Earning reports/forecasts, Investments, Sales/revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial Company, Jonathan Schwartz, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
Sun chops heads: Can it get any respect?
Insight commentary With its open source efforts slow to pay off and the broader economy crumbling, CEO Jonathan Schwartz responds to a charge that Sun has become "toxic".
Tags: Open source, Servers, Financial, Leadership, Headcount Reduction, Jonathan Schwartz, Cloud Computing, Forbes, Sun Microsystems Inc., microprocessor
Oracle buys integration challenge along with Sun
News Acquiring Sun gives Oracle powerful injection of new technology, but sales pitch of integrated hardware and software has fallen on deaf ears so far.
Tags: Software integration, IBM Corp., Integration, Database, server appliance, Cloud Computing, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software
Sun touts Java app store for billion-strong audience
News Details of "Project Vector", a Java app store, will emerge at the upcoming JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems chief Jonathan Schwartz says in blog posting.
Tags: Java, Product marketing, Web Browser, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., search engine company, Oracle Corp., Earth, revenue, Product marketing
Sun boosts revenue with free software strategy
News Sun chief Jonathan Schwartz has created his own free software foundation, open sourcing everything from Java to Solaris as a way to grow revenue.
Tags: Open source, Software, Databases, Servers, Storage, Database, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., phone, Support Services
Greening the Valley, one tech giant at a time
News Executives from Cisco, HP, and Sun talk at Fortune conference about how to prevent the tech industry's carbon footprint from growing to 3 percent by 2020.
Tags: Green IT, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Footprint, Tech Industry, Energy Consumption, McKinsey & Co., Emission, Jonathan Schwartz, printer, network
HP to sell ProLiant servers with Sun's Solaris
News The manufacturer will bundle Solaris 10, a rival to its own HP-UX operating system, with its ProLiant servers and blade systems.
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., Jonathan Schwartz, operating system, Sun Solaris, HP Compaq ProLiant, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server
JavaFX: Sun tries to win developers--and cash
News Sun has to do all this heavy lifting on its own, hoping to attract a new class of developers while opening a whole new revenue source.
Tags: Java, Handhelds, Personal Computers, Web browsers, Mobile, Web Browser, Cell Phone, Jonathan Schwartz, Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Sun issues upbeat fourth-quarter forecast
News Sun Microsystems says net income could beat estimates, sending its shares up more than 11 percent in after-hours trading.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Hardware, Software, Servers, Storage, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thomson Corp., Wall Street, net income
Sun posts a loss on sinking revenue
News The troubled hardware maker comes below analysts' expectations as the economy weighs on high-end customers, but says it will weather the storm.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Earning reports/forecasts, Chip, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., multi-threading, Hardware, chip multi-threading, revenue
Oracle to buy Sun in US$7.4B deal
News After weeks of speculation about whether Sun was for sale, it turns out the buyer isn't IBM, but software heavyweight Oracle.
Tags: Acquisitions, Java, IBM Corp., Database, non-GAAP, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, software, Oracle Corp., middleware
Sun chiefs collect bonuses despite missed targets
News Sun Microsystems Chief Scott McNealy and four other top officers will collect generous bonuses this year even though the company has not met all its performance targets.
Tags: Benefits
Sun changing course on Itanium plans--again
News in brief Sun Microsystems doesn't want to bring its Solaris operating sytem to Intel's Itanium chip.
Tags: Servers
Sun lays off software employees
News Previously announced job cuts climb to 3,600 as Sun Microsystems tries to return to solid financial footing.
Tags: Servers
Sun names new communications exec
News Software stars have been rising since the Schwartz era dawned.
Tags: Executive recruiting
