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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
What a difference a day makes -- now the difference between Sun's cash on hand and market cap looks more like $0.08B... Sun’s shares dropped close to 8 percent Thursday, closing at $5.21. The company now has a stock-market value of $3.9 billion and has close to $3.5 billion in cash, said chief executive Jonathan Schwartz in an interview Thursday after the market closed. Update: Sun Microsystems: A...
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Instigator Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The next Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is scheduled for October 14th at 8am. Please note — the location is Boccacinos on McGill College The last breakfast had the biggest turnout ever. That was in part thanks to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring the breakfast. Thanks again to Sun and Sandra and Michal for organizing that. There’s no sponsor this [...]
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ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this week that it has cut its emissions by 23 percent over 2007 levels. So now, it...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Check the full article for more potentially bad MySQL news for Sun David Axmark , a co-founder and former lead engineer at MySQL AB , has resigned from Sun Microsystems Inc. a few weeks after another co-founder said he may also leave the company. "I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organizations," Axmark wrote in his resignation letter, according to a blog...
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Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Sun Microsystems announced it has reduced its GHG emissions from U.S. operations by 23 percent, surpassing its original goal of a 20 percent reduction over 2002 levels by 2012. The achievement has earned the company praise from the EPA. Sun has pledged an additional 20 percent GHG emissions reduction from worldwide operations over 2007 levels by [...]
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Ted Leung talks about the lack of dynamic languages in desktop applications . There's something ironic about that: Ted works for Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems, back in the day , was a big contributor to Tcl and Tk. Despite not being the "in thing", Tcl and Tk are used a lot more than people think. Not so much in the latest and greatest things being built now, due to the ( undeservedly ) "uncool"...
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New World Notes (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Charlanna Beresford’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… Come see well-known author Terry Pratchett discuss his novel Nation on Thursday, October 9 at 12 PM. Pratchett’s Discworld series has global sales of 55 million, and is published in 35 countries....
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the reduction of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from US operations by 23 percent, surpassing
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Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
‘Rules suck’, says MySQL co-founder David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL, has quit Sun Microsystems because he “hates” all the rules he has to follow at the company.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/david_axmark_mysql_quits_sun/
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
David Axmark, a cofounder and former lead engineer for MySQL, has resigned from Sun Microsystems a few weeks after another cofounder said he may also leave the company. "I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations," Axmark wrote in his resignation letter, according to a blog post Tuesday from Kaj Arno, head of MySQL community relations. "I HATE all...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Incomplete strategy Sun Microsystems has lost a key individual responsible for getting its aspiring open-source software included in leading Linux distributions.…
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Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Incomplete strategy Sun Microsystems has lost a key individual responsible for getting its aspiring open-source software included in leading Linux distributions.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/barton_george_quits_sun/
