Sun

Over the last few weeks there has been speculation in the trade press about another big layoff (or “RIF”) at Sun. It looks like today, Thursday, was the day. To those affected: please join the Sun Alumni groups on Yahoo! and Facebook, and sign up with LinkedIn too. There are plenty of fellow Sun alums…

I’m flying back to Boston on the Thursday night red-eye for a long weekend, and I’m planning to spend Friday afternoon visiting friends at the Sun Burlington campus. This will probably wind up in the bar of the Naked Fish just up the Middlesex Turnpike. If you’re in the area, drop me an email or…

I’ve just created a Facebook group for Sun Alumni. You might wonder why. After all, there’s an existing, very successful Yahoo! discussion group, the Sun Microsystems Alumni Association, with an associated group over on LinkedIn. However the organizers of SMAA want to keep the tone “professional”, which tends to rule out such things as (e.g.)…

This is the kind of thing which drives me crazy: Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW – News) today announced that it will change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA, the ubiquitous technology and brand it created in 1995. The stock ticker change will go into effect for the trading community on Monday, August…

Sue Weber reports that “PAL01 is finally coming down.” Boy, that takes me back…..

Good to see that traditional values have not been forgotten…

I think this must be the first time that the date of a Sun layoff has been announced in advance. If you’re one of those affected, or you know someone who is, please remind them of two important resources: The Sun Microsystems Alumni Association. [SMAA] A Yahoo! Group that puts you in touch with thousands…

I just exercised all of my Sun stock options that were above water. The deadline was next Monday. It’s just a few dollars, but even so…. UPDATE: I was wrong about the deadline. I actually have 90 days after my termination date. (That’s today.) But it’s OK; it’s one less thing to have to remember…

From CNET News.com Sun Microsystems hired a new software chief on Monday, CNET News.com has learned: Rich Green, the latest in a series of former executives the company has lured back […] Green originally started at Sun in 1989 but left in 2004 to become executive vice president of product development at Cassatt, a start-up…

A lot of Sun folks have been posting their favourite Scott McNealy stories. Here’s one of mine: Back in the late 1980s Sun opened a new high-rise headquarters building at 901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto: PAL1. It was quite a change after the cluster of low-profile MTV (Mountain View) buildings, and Scott took…