Forbes: Sun Down
May 12, 2006, 20:30 (4 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Daniel Lyons)
"Sun Micro's new chief, Jonathan Schwartz, has to innovate his
way out of the company's agonizing five-year decline. There are few
options left.
"A shakeup atop Sun Microsystems has Silicon Valley wondering
whether the once high-flying company that 'put the dot in dot-com'
has become another dinosaur lumbering toward the high-tech tar pit.
Couldn't happen--could it? Not so many years ago Sun had a market
value of $200 billion. But then Data General, Digital Equipment
Corp. and Wang Labs were all Wall Street darlings in their
day..."
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