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| | Business 2.0 :: Online Article :: Tech Investor :: Waiting for the Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | NEW YORK - Sun Microsystems (SUNW) is far from being the bellwether that it was back when people used to call it one of the Four Horsemen of the Nasdaq. |
 | | Sun's proprietary Solaris servers, which run on the Unix platform, face intense competition from H-P, Dell and IBM, which sell servers that run on the open source Linux operating system and on so-called "Wintel" servers that run on Microsoft software and Intel (INTC) chips. |
 | | Sun, despite its problems, does have about $5.5 billion in cash and long-term investments to make software acquisitions. |
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