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Change Your Storage Economics
Date: November 10, 2008
Time: 3:30 p.m. PT
Watch John Fowler, EVP Systems, and Mike Shapiro, Distinguished Engineer - Fishworks, as they unveil the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems -- a.k.a. Amber Road-- the industry's first Open Storage products.
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In his letter to shareholders, which is part of Sun's 2008 Annual Report, President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz announces an expanded gross margin of 1.3 percentage points and an increase in operating income of $63 million. He also notes an 8% jump in product and services deferred revenue amounting to $2.9 billion. The year ended, he notes, with an increase in cash flow from operations of $371 million for a total of $1.3 billion. Sun also bought back 151 million shares of its stock for a reported $2.76 billion in the 2008 fiscal year.
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The ODF Toolkit will use an initial software code contribution from Sun to provide developers with an easy-to-use Application Programming Interface (API) for reading, writing and manipulating ODF documents while accelerating additional application development. One part of the initial code contribution is an ODF Validator, a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks certain conformance criteria. Capitalizing on the open, elegant nature of ODF, the Toolkit targets developers who want to create new applications and solutions ranging from content management, business workflows and activities to Web-based document solutions.
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