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Global Server Shipments Outpacing Economy [view article]
Sun/Java lost market share and went down in revenues, when the rest of the industry went up. This company is not in imminent danger of collapse, but its long-term rooters have to be getting concerned. At this hour, it is down to 8.91, almost 51% for the year. These folks need to wake up. Replyn
Memo to Sun: Promote MySQL Through Avnet [view article]
Hmmm ... Do Google and Yahoo also use high price Sun's hardwares? Oracles DB helped Sun to sell a lot of hardwares. Oracles (like Microsoft) know how to lock loyal customers to pay Oracle's taxes for the DB. I had been yelling out for 2+ years that Jonathan's strategies of giving away softwares to make money on hardwares are the failures. Look at the revenue growth for Sun for the past 2 years to now to prove my point ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Healthcare and legacy costs are partially to blame, but the UAW is, in my opinion, more of the culprit. I worked for Ford and experienced the ridiculousness of all of the red tape first hand. The UAW is nothing more than a leech. From the union reps who do nothimg more than walk the floor and shake hands, to the stupid rules pertaining to job classification, unions are a big reason why AMerican car makers are struggling. Hell, in my plant (Sterling Heights plant on Mound road for Ford) we had a guy making over 100k a year and he was a damn floor cleaner!On Aug 01 07:24 PM brian58 wrote:
> It isn't the unions that has caused the downfall of GM. It is healthcare
> costs for retirees. GM can compete against Toyota. It cannot compete
> against Japan. If we had universal health care coverage in this country
> and American companies could get out of having to offer healthcare
> benefits to it's employees then GM would be in better shape. And
> before someone starts screaming about socialized medicine let me
> state a few observations. Healthcare is not free. It costs money
> to provide good healthcare and money is a finite resource. Everyone
> has an obligation to take care of themselves by eating right, exercising
> and not smoking. (Tobacco companies use to get government subsidies,
> why shouldn't lung cancer patients) But every American citizen has
> a right to decent healthcare. One of the things that made America
> great was the availability of a free education to everyone, just
> not for the rich. Modern medical technology is expensive. Some CEO
> shouldn't get rich by saying no to the insurance company saying no
> to my medical care. Why would you want to be part of a society that
> put greed above the well being of it's citizens regardless of economic
> class. Let's have compassionate capitalism in America. Money isn't
> isn't evil but the love of money is or so they say. Reply
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Memo to Sun: Promote MySQL Through Avnet [view article]
Hmmmm....so does that mean that companies like Google and Yahoo are not serious companies??? ReplyMemo to Sun: Promote MySQL Through Avnet [view article]
No serious company uses open source software, Oracle is the only real choice, I don't know anyone who believes otherwise. Sun keeps blaming the US economy, but that's a total ruse, the economy's totally fine. ReplyStrengthening Dollar Poses Issues for Tech Earnings [view article]
I agree with your last paragraph. It will take years for the dollar to go up much, so short term it shouldnt matter for equities. The US is still better off then Europe for some time.. ReplySun Beats Estimates, But Outlook Dicey [view article]
Sun is like a college campus: full of great ideas and poor execution when it comes to finished goods in exchange for revenue. Inevitably, some products will be and are successful keeping them afloat. On the conceptual and strategic levels, Sun has way too many empty suits who keep making pronouncements with no grounding in facts. This empty talk is counter productive, confusing and annoying to Sun's customers and its own sales force. It is also a cost ballast that can be jettisoned. The “iPod moment” dreamt of by McNealy will probably never come with so much loose talk and so little to show for it in terms of easy to sell mass market appeal. That is not the way Apple's wonder works in the marketplace today.Sun has a great engineering and great brand recognition. Open source is a good idea perhaps, but it won't work without leadership which Sun lacks. Open storage likewise is a good idea but it will bring low gross margins and too much emphasis on this market niche will erode sales of high end systems, which will further erode margins.
I think that the best thing to happen for Sun is for it too shut up and put out some finished products. Then it can validate its approach to open components - software, systems, storage - to be used to built bullet proof complex IT infrastructures. Reply
Board and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
its all a self serving scam.the new word should be "suckerholder&quo... stockholder.the ceo's & bod's are just selfserving & nobody mentions the suckerholder in the boardroom. pay should only be by dividend fro shares bought by management & bod's & no options.that would straighten things out real quick.utopia? ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
Jackooo...you are exactly correct. The companies send out proxies, etc., as a "feel good" exercise, not something that will result in any change of directors, management, etc. The mutual funds are not doing their jobs when they simply go along to get along with extreme compensation packages being set up by compensation committees. Any time a compny is losing money badly, but gives top executives major pay raises, something is wrong inside the management of the companies. ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
Years ago when it became so obvious to me that boards of directors were nothing more than good old boys clubs, rubber stamps for corporate executives and every bit as greedy, I began to look in the proxy for the identities of the Compensation Committee. Every proxy I have voted since I have withheld my vote for those committee members and have encouraged others to do the same. May never have an affect but at least its something I can do to express my dissatisfaction... ReplyBoard and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
I have both T and CMCSA. I notice their executive teams are paid the most. That's a shame from these two losers.The SEC can make up lots more rules & I can vote against the board but unless the mutual fund companies vote their shares against the boards, we individual share holders might as well forget proxy voting.
I cannot understand why the funds don't take the reigns? It is their clients that are losing money. It is true that most of the clients are dumb and lazy regarding financial savy but gezz. You would think the funds would do something, no?? Reply
Board and Executive Compensation in S&P 500 [view article]
giving the people on the board hefty 'compensation' really amounts to a bribe by the top execs to keep the big exec $ coming, no matter what. Warren Buffet does it right, when it comes to this. good article. thank you. ReplySun Beats Estimates, But Outlook Dicey [view article]
weather (not whether), sorry. ReplySun Beats Estimates, But Outlook Dicey [view article]
Sun went down again today. The stock is now down 49% YTD. We want this stock to go up. If JAVA has become a slow-growth company that is exposed to sudden technology changes, then it isn't worth a high P/E. That could mean that it needs to go down to $7 until the growth issues are resolved. I don't know if the CxOs at Sun can whether JAVA at those levels for very long. One way or another, Sun will need to shake off this malaise and establish value for its investors. If they don't ... Reply31 S&P 500 Stocks with Negative 3 FY Net Income [view article]
No I mean average Reply