If they are reporting their results 4 months after the end of the
quarter, I would expect there would be a few more screams :o)

"SANTA CLARA, Calif. - January 27, 2009 - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: JAVA) reported results today for its second quarter of fiscal
2009, which ended December 28, 2008."

So it did take into account the abrupt death of the US economy, for
what that's worth


On Jan 30, 9:40 pm, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two things to bear in mind:
>
> These are Q2 figures (i.e.  July to Sept 2008, unless I'm mistaken) so
> they apply to before the current slump really started to bite hard.
>
> Java revenues of $67m as a fraction of total revenues of $1,370m comes
> to less than 5% (an unusually high percentage).  As a revenue stream
> Java contributes little to Sun's books.  On the other hand, as a stand-
> alone entity, if put on the market the Java division could fetch much,
> much more.
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