What’s on the horizon for Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) doesn’t look very promising. The company expects quarterly losses of between $185 million and $260 million, which are higher than expected.
In light of the poor economy, Sun is not only facing potentially slower customer spending, it is challenged by the diminished value of recent acquisitions, according to reports. The company bought open-source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion earlier this year.
In other Sun-related news, the company today introduced a storage blade and two new server modules targeted at the enterprise. The Sun Blade 6000 disk module, Sun's first Open Storage blade, offers up to 1.2 TB of storage capacity and leverages Solaris ZFS to simplify data migration and enhance data integrity while lowering costs. The new UltraSPARC T2 Plus-based Sun Blade T6340 server module and the Sun Blade X6240 server module, based on the AMD Opteron 2300 series quad-core processor, offer extreme consolidation and virtualization platforms that enable enterprises to cut costs and efficiently manage their data center infrastructures. Sun also announced the Netra CP3250, a new Intel Xeon blade server aimed at the telco market.
