Forbes: Sun Down

“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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