Sun Microsystems, Its Downturn, and Search
October 30, 2008
Sun Microsystems, according to MarketWatch’s Therese Poletti here, may be positioning itself for a sale. With earnings declining and the broader economic climate grim, the company may look to Lenovo, Dell, or another company to buy it. Sun Microsoft systems and search are not considered as inter related. When I was working on my 2005 The Google Legacy here, I heard that in the early days of Google, a number of former Sun engineers were working at the company. I also mentioned in one of my lectures that Sun took a stake in a search company that is now mostly forgotten, InfraSearch. Our original The Point (Top 5% of the Internet) ran on Sun servers, and many other pre-Linux revolution search systems depended on Sun gear. Ms. Poletti does a very good job of analyzing Sun’s challenges. If the company goes on the block, talented engineers may jump ship. The buyer gets Sun’s hardware business, but the Sun patent portfolio and its once promising InfraSearch may add additional value to the buyer. The days of search and content processing vendors building their business on Sun’s reliable, powerful hardware are behind us.
Stephen Arnold, October 30, 2008
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