Labeled number two of 2007's most underreported tech stories, InfoWorld's Bill Snyder highlights Sun's comeback from the dot-com bubble burst to its "...four profitable quarters in a row plus record margins — as well as a growing list of wins, point to a company on the upswing," he reports.
Mark your calendars. Sun's second quarter fiscal year 2008 financial results will be released on Thursday, January 24, with the company hosting a conference call beginning at 1:30 p.m. PT/4:30 p.m. ET. Sun's financial results will be posted on Sun's Investor Relations website, which also is where the public can tune-in to the conference call.
In his article "The New Face of the TOP500," Gil Shainer of Mellanox Technologies notes the change in the composition of the list, remarking that there has been a shift from pure high-performance computing (HPC) to include enterprise-based solutions such as enterprise datacenter (EDC)-based, interconnected, rack-mounted systems. He goes on to analyze the historical and current technological trends in HPC and provide an updated analysis model for the TOP500 project.
The "Good News" from Sun for January 2008 includes the Solaris Operating System's (Solaris OS) continued lead in the UNIX system market with almost half of all UNIX server shipments and Sun's maintained number four ranking year over year in overall disk storage systems units shipped. Also see Sun's competitive advantage, customers' business results using Sun technology, plus much more.
System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. Some of those items will become detailed articles in this newsletter. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes TACC's Ranger Set to Go into Full Production, A Review of the News from 2007, Solaris Application Programming by Darryl Gove, and Sun's Comeback One of the Most Underreported Stories of 2007.
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