Comments on: Buying StorageTek: Sun's last big gamble?

Sun's $4.1 billion buyout of StorageTek is a huge bet: It's the last cash deal that size Sun will be able to make.

[Bob_Barker]

Analysts are harsh

"We would rather have seen the company buy back a billion shares and fire 10,000 people."

I guess someone has to put the "anal" in analyst though. What an ass.

[cheeseboy]

ass

Based on his asstute [sic] comments (share buybacks are only a temporary band-aid to prop up lagging share prices), Steve Fortuna is obviously much better at his job than the 10,000 Sun employees who he'd like to send to the unemployment line.

[Bob_Barker]

Analysts are harsh

"We would rather have seen the company buy back a billion shares and fire 10,000 people."

I guess someone has to put the "anal" in analyst though. What an ass.

[cheeseboy]

ass

Based on his asstute [sic] comments (share buybacks are only a temporary band-aid to prop up lagging share prices), Steve Fortuna is obviously much better at his job than the 10,000 Sun employees who he'd like to send to the unemployment line.

Some won't never understand Sun's mission

Analysts are one of these group of people. :-)

Sun needs storage because every big business (Suns main
market place) needs big storage. Now they have good machines
for the big business, good and nearly complete software stack
and a storage solution with a sales force which was successfull
in doing their job in that area. Good partners of Sun will have in
one moment a new are where they can sell solutions with Sun
technology - great deal from their point of view.

Have you read the last anaylst report? Service and storage sales
are growing, also inside SUNW. It was not the last big deal of
Sun, be sure. But it was also not the last stupid comment of
analysts.

Some won't never understand Sun's mission

Analysts are one of these group of people. :-)

Sun needs storage because every big business (Suns main
market place) needs big storage. Now they have good machines
for the big business, good and nearly complete software stack
and a storage solution with a sales force which was successfull
in doing their job in that area. Good partners of Sun will have in
one moment a new are where they can sell solutions with Sun
technology - great deal from their point of view.

Have you read the last anaylst report? Service and storage sales
are growing, also inside SUNW. It was not the last big deal of
Sun, be sure. But it was also not the last stupid comment of
analysts.

[furian]

Sun

is on the move, being squeezed by Linux offerings as well as the marketing gorilla MS who could sell reading glasses to the blind, after all look what they have done with Windows- made people computing illiterate and a boat load of cash for themselves. Fools and their money are soon parted and with MS we part with it over and over and....

[furian]

Sun

is on the move, being squeezed by Linux offerings as well as the marketing gorilla MS who could sell reading glasses to the blind, after all look what they have done with Windows- made people computing illiterate and a boat load of cash for themselves. Fools and their money are soon parted and with MS we part with it over and over and....