What a ridiculous article, Sun may have lost some revenue to the foreign copy of Unix called Linux, but they're not about to go under. Their revenue is still over $10 billion (with a "B") per year. Add all the revenue up from every Linux company on Earth and it's not even $1 billion, nor will it be anytime soon. To put it in perspective, the largest Linux company by far Red Hat is only bringing in about $200 million a year, making Sun 50 times bigger in revenue, and much more diversified. Not to mention Sun has more cash on hand than Red Hat's entire market cap value! That means they could buy the whole company today, by simply writing a check. And the way RH shares are tumbling in value right now, that's not going to change anytime soon.
Lets hope not, still it seems as though you're putting your head in the sand any company with nearly a negative 8% ROE is in trouble. They can have all the revenue they want but in the end if it cost more than a buck to get a dollar in the door there are serious problems..
Add all the revenue up from every Linux company on Earth and it's not even $1 billion
IBM alone sells more than 2 Billion in Linux Servers every year! and thats not even counting their Linux service and support side of the table..
IBM's Linux-related sales alone (not counting the rest of the company). Red hat alone is looking at $300 million for this year (and they don't add hardware sales like Sun). And don't forget, Sun ships Linux too.