They keep buying companies and hoping for "synergy". StorageTek you can excuse, since the real purchase was the patent protection it got them from NetApp and others. MySQL makes little to no sense from my perspective.

Sun, my advice is to put all your "wood" behind three arrows: Solaris OS, Java programming language and tools, Sun hardware (SPARC and x64). Forget everything else no matter how tempting.

The most interesting bit of information in the article is the firm belief that the economy tanking is good for Sun.

This was a big meme during .COM 1.0 because IT helps you save money, and your top worry during down times is saving money, hence:

Recession == IT boom!

Obviously good times are also an IT boom!

IT BOOM for ever!

If the main link isn't working try this one:

http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2008/10/21/sun-to-change-ticker...

Can someone explain to me how Sun even makes any money at all?

Our company almost exclusively buys Sun hardware to run our services...and we pay them an absolute fortune for it as well.

They are also very entrenched in numeric computing. Sun Sparcs and all. The transition to Linux is very very slow.