Sun announced preliminary results for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended June 30, 2008 - $3.725 to $3.800 billion, as compared with $3.835 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 and GAAP net income per diluted share for the fourth quarter in the range of $0.05 to $0.15.
"In these difficult economic times, we continue to see customers across the world look to open software and hardware as a source of savings, and feel Sun is well positioned with our most robust line ever of server, storage, software and service offerings," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems.
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According to a blog posting by Sun, "The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors delivered 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack HPC benchmark.
For single servers, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server outperforms the best IBM Power 595 5GHz POWER6 published result by two times on the Linpack HPC benchmark. This system is the largest that IBM makes for its 5GHz Power6-based servers."
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Once again, Sun has been chosen to provide the technology platform to NBC Universal for its web site during coverage of the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Perkins Miller, Senior VP, Digital Media, NBC sports and Olympics, made the announcement, along with Peter Ryan, Executive VP, Global Sales and Services, Sun Microsystems.
The NBCOlympics.com site is supported by 160 Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers. These Intel Xeon processor-based x64 servers combine world-class performance, high compute density and storage with compact footprints and leading energy efficiency. In the lead-up to and during the games, Sun Services will provide installation, engineering expertise and support to NBCOlympics.com.
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The OpenSolaris community received the new Enterprise LAMP Stack for Solaris and Linux courtesy of Sun. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly used for Web-tier application development and services.
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Sun's new StarOffice 9 beta software, now available for the first time on the Mac platform, includes more than 1,500 new features and improvements that will make StarOffice 9 an even stronger alternative to Microsoft Office, at a fraction of the cost.
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Computerworld reported on a recent Samsung Electronics announcement about a high endurance 8GB single-level NAND flash memory chip that can markedly increase the life span and performance of solid state drives. The chip was jointly developed with Sun Microsystems.
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