Sun's "disappointing" fiscal third quarter results, which reported it lost $34 million, or 4 cents per share, in the three months ending March 30, spurred Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz to answer a few questions regarding the company's health and status.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will now offer the OpenSolaris Operating System to its customers as well as give users access to MySQL premium technical support. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use.
Less is more or better, at least, in the eyes of RedMonk analyst James Governor. The "less" he blogs about is the .5 percent decline in Sun's revenue reported for the company's fiscal third quarter, which ended March 30th. On the other hand, he notes, Microsoft suffered a 24 percent decline in revenue for the quarter.
Over the past couple of months, Sun had been promoting the fact that its was nearing a milestone - certifying a half a million professionals - and wanted to honor the Sun Certified Professional who helped the company reach that mark with gifts. Well, the milestone has been met and the individual awarded.
System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes: Developers Offered Free Hosting on OpenSocial Platform, New Releases Freely Available to Download, OpenSolaris dot Org and dot Com, Sun Third Party System Management Integrations, Does the Solaris OS Really Cost Less Than Linux and Neil Young to Help Open JavaOne Conference.
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