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Alex Hay

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JAVA: I want to like it...

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Posted 665 days ago on 1/26/08

Market call:JAVA will go DOWN
Target: $15.00 on 7/26/08
Current: $8.61 (-47.37% from time of market call)

There is a lot of good news at Sun Micro, and I want to like it... But I just don't think this stock is ready for prime time. True, earnings are up, management is more focused, and they have just completed an interesting take over of MySQL, but I would like to see what happens after 6 months. If they are still making money, and they have integrated MySQL and perhaps a few other quality additions to the lineup, I might change my mind. Frankly they have too much competition, and they are way behind on a lot of points. So I wait and see.

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Alex Hay

Posted 2/3/2008, 10:18 am

Time will tell, but I think Sun made a big mistake sticking to their own proprietary hardware, software, etc. ware. People really don't care about the hardware so much as about effectiveness. What made Sun effective was implementation. Their proprietary hardware and software really didn't matter once the competition caught up with them in that area. Now it is really about implementation.

I am not a techie, and I don't know the specifics of one system over another, but it seems that there are a lot of good systems out there now. MS has come up to speed, Linux/BSD/etc is everywhere, even Apple seems to have some adherents. What does Sun have to offer than the other vendors do not have?

Waldemar Mozes

Posted 2/2/2008, 9:07 pm

When you say "behind on a lot of points" what do you mean?

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