• The downfall of Sun Microsystems

  There are many reasons Sun wasn't able to survive as an independent company. Chief among these are Sun's hardware strategy and failure to execute after acquisitions.

  News April 24, 2009

• Where did Sun go wrong? - JavaWorld

  Once a Silicon Valley star, Sun Microsystems has lost most of its shine in the decade since the dot-com bubble burst. Elizabeth Montalbano reports on the series of missteps that have led this great innovator to impasse.

  JavaWorld April 10, 2009

• Sun Sparc's future unclear under Oracle, analysts say

  Oracle made it clear that it was Sun Microsystem's software business that made it want to buy the company, raising significant questions around the fate of Sun's hardware business, analysts said on Monday.

  News April 21, 2009

• Sun layoffs: New software division emerges - JavaWorld

  Sun Microsystems is laying off 15 percent to 18 percent of its employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving $700 million to $800 million. Sun's software division is being reorganized and its top software ...

  JavaWorld November 14, 2008

• Get this: Sun's a software company - JavaWorld

  New 21% shareholder Southeastern Asset Management calls Sun an interesting case: it's a software company but nobody knows it -- yet.

  JavaWorld October 22, 2008

• Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans in ad

  Oracle Corp. ended it silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms.

  News September 11, 2009

• Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, Java - JavaWorld

  Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than IBM would have for Sun Microsystems, but it may have far more use for Sun's "application to disk" technology than IBM ever did. ComputerWorld's Patrick Thibodeau reports.

  JavaWorld April 20, 2009

• JAVAONE: IBM, Sun likely to continue Java rift - JavaWorld

  June 30, 2005Just because IBM and Sun Microsystems made a show of playing nice at JavaOne this week in San Francisco does not mean the two companies have entirely repaired their rift over the development of Java ...

  JavaWorld June 30, 2005

• Sun leads way as server sales take a record plunge in Q2

  Oracle Corp.'s pending acquisition has put Sun Microsystems Inc. into a limbo that appears to be devouring its server business.

  News September 2, 2009

• Oracle Aims to Be the Apple of Data Center Hardware

  Oracle's recent US$7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems could turn Sun's ailing hardware business into a boon for data-center managers. But industry analysts question whether the software firm can turn Sun's hardware ...

  News May 11, 2009

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