As a Sun employee, I can't help but notice all sorts of colorful stories on the tech news, "people familiar with the matter" type of stories, ciculating in the last couple of weeks. What's more interesting is how millions of dollars worth of shares could change hands based upon "unconfirmed" news.

Sure, powerful analysts have said so. Sure, where could it go when a company's share has been down to the earth? Anyone can recite a good history of such things.

But there always are exceptions, right? If you were reporters/analysts several years ago, you sure didn't miss the party who pre-announced Apple's death, many many times. Apple, from what I read, had been declared dead more than 50 times.

Only a few years before the introduction of iPod, even a board member of Apple was heard saying the company was going bankrupt. Surely, as cool as Mac, it only had 5% of the PC market. It seemed only the cool artists were buying it. Apple has had no short of cool ideas and technologies, but had little success in the market dominated by Windows. What's wrong? Can't cool stuff have a right place? Does cool mean niche?

Apple's huge success proved that a cool product can actually dominate a market. The key though, is to find the cool customers, which Apple did, thanks to the cool youths!

Sun has had no short of cool ideas and technologies. Sun happened to have been a cool company and had cool customers too. So how do you know it won't be hot again?

Well, as a Sun engineer, I'm obviously biased. Go ahead continue your forecast of cloudy days over Sun, be prepared to get a sunglass though, who knows, after 50 forecasts, you might need it

I just can't help but laugh when I run into this article. CNet sure have some thoughtful and creative editors.

As people are coming up more key words regarding this event. For me, the Microsoft-Yahoo news can be tagged: aggressive, predatory, desperate, lame.

Remember the days when they were aggressive? They were labeled predatory. The result? They killed off Netscape just like that. Many would hate Microsoft for what they did. But strategically, that's a classic successful case of the strategy "taking away the firewood from under the cauldron". People might say they hated Microsoft, but they didn't hate their free "soup" and they didn't care to supply Netscape with the good and old firewood they badly needed, leaving their cauldron cold.

There may be no need to debate on if the Yahoo Cauldron, which is obviously losing steam, actually worth $44.5 billion. Or if the two teams, each failed to compete with Google, could end up even worse when combined as manifested by many historical combinations. Not to say how users might react to this desperate move -- maybe they'll abandon both and go take a sip of the Google soup. It just made people chuckle on how even Microsoft could be so hopeless against Google.

Maybe it's not a coincidence when Mr. Gates are calling for a Kinder Capitalism, Microsoft is acting like a behaved competitor to Google. Sure Google is a colossus in comparison with Netscape. But sure it's obvious where Google gets their firewood.

It certainly seems, the more aggressive, the smarter. When you're desperate, you tend to make lame decisions.

Here is the story by the way: Microsoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombs.

Looking at today's stock price for sunw, we're flat after only a mild rise in the mid of a big increase in Q4 profit. Blame the volatile session if you would or blind investors. Or maybe they just way too smart and had dug things up from those financial numbers and decided to wait-and-see.

It turns out, over the last five years, we had increased our revenue by about 4.5%. In the same period, HP and Dell had over 60%, even IBM had over 12%. But Apple made everyone wish to be an Apple with a stunning 230%. A stock price from $7 to $130, that's what makes it a shining apple.

Ok, we all know they've dropped "computer", shame they couldn't even hold the fame they earned when they invented PC, and now that's not even their major product anymore. Or is it "shame"? Depending on how one sees it, it is the bravest act to recognize the market reality and embrace new opportunities. Of course, one could argue that iPod and iPhone are still extensions to "computer" and ITunes are software services. But that's not the point here. Brilliant ideas could come to anyone, but the one who wins is the one who acts on it bravely with an open-mind.

The world already know we are one of most open-sourced companies;
The world are reading the most open-minded CEO's blog
Hope you (and we) would find it soon that this Sun has bravely opened its arms to new ideas, new opportunities, and opened a revenue stream to your liking

Oh, would you regret not buying Sun at such a discount? This fake financial analyst rates sunw a strong buy with a target price to your liking too

Before iPod, the Apple was just about the size of the organically grows in my backyard. What happened afterwards surely would amaze everyone who has looked at this chart. So now it's a big huge Apple -- about 17 times bigger than when it announced iPod in Oct. 2001.

How this new-gene has inflated it into such a gigantic apple may be no secret to many. Look how powerful this gene is:
Study: Dr. iPod can double successful heart-condition diagnoses.

Now it has been rummored that yet another new gene has reproduced into half a million over the weekend!

What's our new gene? Only 12 times needed to get us back to the 60s