Comments on: IBM Mulling Sun "Resource Action"?

By: Weekend Update, 4.04.09 | Oliver J. Chiang | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:09:36 +0000

[...] A sense of humor is certainly an invaluable feather to have in your cap these days. Digital Daily wrote about the most recent doom-and-gloom predictions and events to happen in this econalypse, like analysts’ prediction of YouTube losing $470 million in 2009, the barren IPO-less wasteland VCs are bemoaning and a major global slump in semiconductor sales. Other headlines weren’t quite so dreary: Google’s foray into VC land, the folks at BlackBerry HQ celebrating surprisingly good fourth-quarter results and the world’s worst-kept-secret, the anticipated IBM-Sun merger. [...]

By: Benny Carlson

Benny Carlson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:19:34 +0000

Nonsense, I’m afraid. Sun’s R&D department always did, and still does produce some of the most innovative technology in Silicon Valley… in recent years, dtrace, zfs, amber road, thumper, blackbox, the list goes on.

The culprits are Sun’s appalling sales and marketing teams, who’ve consistently failed miserably to capitalize.

By: Hank Scooter

Hank Scooter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:42:05 +0000

Sad to say, but Sun is bloated with massive extra useless bench warmers.

They coulda and shoulda dumped over 50% of their employees from the high of 44,000 back in 2000. They should only be 22,000 today, but instead have over 30,000 after the Nov 08 RIF.

The R&D org has been bloated and worthless for over a decade. SG&A will also take a huge hit. Execs, VPs, Directors and Middle Mgrs will all have to go, since they got Sun to this pathetic state that they are in.

Sad to face reality, but the alternative is to continue their death spiral and follow DEC and Wang into the graveyard.

By: IBM and Sun Deal: The Waiting Game « lucky13 global

IBM and Sun Deal: The Waiting Game « lucky13 global — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:45:04 +0000

[...] I don’t see IBM retaining Schwartz in any meaningful capacity. If the deal falls through, I don’t see Sun retaining him, either. He won’t be alone; there will likely be massive layouts. [...]