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Sun Microsystems Nasdaq: SUNW , under CEO Jonathan Schwartz s focused leadership, has managed to turn a profit for the third quarter in a row with its results announced earlier this week. While Sun has been a whipping boy in recent years, I think this shows that Sun is on the right track with their hardware and open source software strategy. There s been a lot of innovation under Scwhartz, in terms of more cost Sun Microsystems Nasdaq: stanley quencher SUNW , under CEO Jonathan Schwartzlsquo focused leadership, has managed to turn a profit for the third quarter in a row with its results announced earlier this week. While Sun has been a whipping boy in recent years, I think this shows that Sun is on the right track with their hardware and open source software strategy. Therersquo been a lot of innovation under Scwhartz, in terms of more cost-effective high-end hardware, and stanley cup more participation in open source software. Who would have thought that Sun would embrace Opteron and Intel processors or open source Solaris and Java These items are showing that Sun is now more open stanley tumblers than ever before and I think this strategy is helping their bottom line. While revenues were flat at $3.835 billion compared to the same quarter last year, net income was $329 million and margins are improving. And overall, the company is in much better shape than a year ago. You can listen to the earnings call and view the slides on the web for more details.Sun has improved the efficiency of their o Bdsa Flybe share price plummets on pound;15.3m loss, but UK business performs well
Wednesday 04 March 2015 8:56 pmCity spin legend Brian Basham lands a top jobBy: Express KCSShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare o stanley quencher uk n TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailFinancial markets website ADVFN has called in a man of many talentsUK FINANCIAL market information specialist ADVFN yesterday appointed veteran City journalist, PR guru and small business patron Brian Basham as a non-executive director. Best known for his spell as the PR adviser to British Airways during its dirty tricks war of words with Virgin in the early 90s, Basham has had a long, varied and illustrious career in the Square Mile. Basham began life as a financial journalist, working for the Daily Mail, The Times and The Telegraph. To be honest, I still think of mysel stanley cup f as a journalist, Basham tells City A.M..After a short spell as a fund manager, he then moved into public relations in 1972, wooed by the founding father of modern financial PR, John Addey. Ad stanley cup dey took Basham under his wing and for next four years Basham learnt from the master. He subsequently founded his own PR firm, Broad Street Group ndash; specialising in takeover bid communications ndash; which he grew into a pound;15m public company with a fierce reputation for high-profile and aggressive PR. At one point, I was working on two or three takeover bids, earning pound;50,000 a week, says Basham. But it was when working on those large corporate takeovers that |