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Some seem to think so, other are hoping they will last until through 2009 to release new products and survive the economic downturn.

After reading an article at The Var Guy and another at The Register things are not looking all the great for the company financially. Which in the corporate world, sadly, is all that matters.

Personally I love Sun Microsystems. I think they produce The top x86 hardware in the market, and the some of the best servers period. Their CEO’s stance on open source is a fresh breath and their portfolio is jusy shy of amazing. But yet they still continue to falter, reaching a low on the stock market they haven’t seen in years. In 2000 they hit a high of nearly $250 per share at nearly 64 million shares. Fast foward to now and they are currently at $9.73 a share with just under 1 million. They already hit a low of $9.68 today.

On top of all of this, their are now rumours floating around the internet of Johnathan Schwartz, CEO Sun Microsystems, being at the end of his reign. I sure hope not, this man has done more in his 2 years at Sun then most CEO’s have influence on any single company. While in charge he has open sourced Java, seen Solaris grow into an open source distribution that is going to contend with the best. Sun now has a storage line that is based on open source foundations. Sun has acquired MySQL and continue it’s ongoing Support of Star/Open Office. Yet despite all of these developments the share is falling and the earnings are have problems keeping up. August 1, Sun will be announcing their quarterly results. Can Sun keep for burning out? Can, or even Will, another company save Sun? Only time will tell, but I sure hope so.