Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make matters worse, in this economy most businesses are dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as the income can vary each month. With the credit crunch, this is without a doubt the biggest threat to all companies right now after poor consumer spending. Either Sun will have to make more cuts, get an infusion of funds, or go private. I think that the lack of announcements from Sun about the rumors actually does more damage to the company. For all we know the IBM deal could have been complete FUD or that things were actually worse than we thought. Silence and more jingoism does not help. I really hope there will be some changes in management and leadership at Sun. These are tough times and someone needs to step up to the plate to restore confidence in the company. I think Sun can weather it if someone with good leadership can steer the ship back into good waters, make some hard choices, and get people buying again.
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Blackman <m.black...@fairfx.com> To: Brian Utterback <brian.utterb...@sun.com> Cc: Anon Y Mous <system5u...@yahoo.com>; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:29:18 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so... On 15 Apr 2009, at 17:02, Brian Utterback wrote: > Not so. Whatever SEAM would lose for a low bid, it is still less than they > would lose if Sun went bankrupt. You cannot make a statement that it was > never going to happen without knowing what the stockholders perceptions of > the future are. > > Anon Y Mous wrote: >> This is a pretty good dollars and cents reason for why IBM buying Sun was >> never going to happen: >> http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.543040/browse_thread/thread/c34e6cbcef0078e8?hl=en# just out of curiousity (and as someone who has done no research. :), is Sun going bankrupt regarded as a probable outcome in the near future? I was under the impression, they simply weren't making much profit, but didn't appreciate they were losing money in general. /me retires to read up on the point. - Mark _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
