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Toward that end, McNealy said Sun will continue to look into acquiring companies with useful storage technologies. SOURCE: Reuters http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1156015l.htm For more on Sun's recent acquisitions of storage companies, read these stories at http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid12_gci538177,00.html and http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,,sid12_gci520930,00.html. =============================================== Have you seen all the new Solaris System Administrator tips that have been submitted to our tips exchange? To read and rate those tips, or to submit a Solaris-related tip of your own, go to http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid12_tax281849,00.html. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "NAS market tempts telco supplier" [2.] "Chip-sale slump deepens" [3.] "Adobe workers get compulsory vacation" [1.] "NAS market tempts telco supplier" A traditional telco supplier firmly planted in the Solaris platform made a surprising discovery when it was developing new middleware technology. The technology could be applied to a NAS architecture. However, while the company is moving forward to promote its find, penetrating the established NAS market may not be so easy. SOURCE: searchStorage http://www.searchStorage.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci549113,00.html =============================================== [2.] "Chip-sale slump deepens" Executives at Sun Microsystems are undoubtedly taking note of the fact that computer chip sales are steadily decreasing all over the world. Global chip sales fell 7 percent between February and March, and this is part of a larger trend that began last November, the Semiconductor Industry Association said today. The association says a weaker economy and an oversupply of chips are at the heart of the matter. SOURCE: Reuters http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters-finance/REU20010502S0001 =============================================== [3.] "Adobe workers get compulsory vacation" Sun Microsystems isn't the only IT industry player that needs to save money. Adobe Systems is forcing nearly 2000 employees to take a vacation during the first month of July. 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