Sun's Orion pricing to arrive within two months
News Based on an earlier conversation with Schwartz, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich said he expects pricing to range between $100 and $200, or about £65 to £130, per employee. We remain neutral on Sun, as this strategy will take one to two years...
[April 30, 2003, 7:46]
Sun sets subscription price for Orion
News On Wednesday, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich disclosed a price range in a report after meeting with Schwartz. Sun is considering an annual subscription fee of $100 to $200 per employee," Milunovich said.
[April 24, 2003, 12:58]
HP predicts 20 percent growth
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich on Monday urged HP to split into two companies -- dividing printers from computers or consumer technology from higher-end enterprise products. Fiorina didn't directly address Milunovich's prescription, but she...
[June 9, 2004, 9:45]
LinuxWorld shows software entering adulthood
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich believes Linux has conquered many of its early problems -- the scarcity of programs built to run atop it, the immaturity of technical support, its confinement to low-end computers -- and now Linux poses a...
[January 30, 2001, 11:07]
Sun reports gloomy results
News Server vendors are beating each other up on price," Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich said in a report on Wednesday. Sun raised quality standards, found more problems, and was forced to stop shipping "the majority of our servers," chief...
[October 17, 2003, 11:15]
EMC to axe 1,350 jobs
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich had expected revenue of $1.39bn. And the company hasn't been afraid to cut prices deeply to curtail market-share losses, Milunovich said. EMC, which sells higher-end storage systems and the software used to...
[October 4, 2002, 9:28]
IBM expanding further into Intel's server market
News Some, including Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich, say Big Blue's effort is beginning to pay off. IBM now makes money in Intel servers," Milunovich said in a Tuesday report. In its attempt to conquer the Intel server market, IBM is working on...
[March 14, 2003, 8:48]
Healthy Apple reaps iPod profits
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich was among a number of analysts who suggested in recent weeks that Apple might be able to outdo earnings estimates through strong iPod sales. Apple could beat our estimate, based on strong iPod demand and a...
[April 15, 2004, 8:40]
IBM brings speed to the low end
News Server vendors are beating each other up on price," Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich said in a report on Wednesday. IBM is bringing a faster processor to its lowest-end p615 Unix server and announced new software and hardware on Thursday for...
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
Sun shines brightly once again
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich said there were concerns about product delays in his earnings preview. Sun Microsystems had no trouble topping analysts' estimates in its third quarter Thursday, posting a profit of $436.2m (£275.53m), or 26...
[April 14, 2000, 9:37]
Survey: Cisco must earn storage stripes
News Our sense is that chief information officers underspent their budgets throughout the year," Merrill analyst Steve Milunovich wrote. Networking giant Cisco Systems' new ventures in the storage market have piqued the interest of IT buyers, but the...
[September 30, 2002, 15:31]
Sun gets serious about cheap servers
News Under a new pricing program called Orion, Sun is expected to charge corporations a fee of $100 to $200 per employee a year, according to a recent report from Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich. Sun Microsystems got more serious on Monday about...
[May 20, 2003, 7:43]
Sun seeks to restore its sheen
News Then, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich issued an open letter on Thursday to Sun chief executive Scott McNealy, urging him to cut expenses through additional layoffs to avoid becoming "irrelevant to most users, and eventually acquired.
[October 8, 2003, 11:20]
EMC revs up its matrix
News Milunovich noted that EMC's total market share dropped from 13 percent to 11 percent in the third quarter of last year. One of the technical highlights of the Symmetrix 6 line is expected to be a new "matrix" architecture, designed to increase the...
[January 30, 2003, 14:57]
Huge HP job cuts feared
News Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich predicted job cuts would be announced by August; he projected an earnings boost of 21 cents to 42 cents per share for a hypothetical reduction of 5 percent to 10 percent of employees.
[May 23, 2005, 9:05]
