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Because the burst was brighter than a billion suns, many telescopes could study it even from such a huge distance.

David Burrows

There is nothing in the agreement that we signed that required them to give up support for [Sun's Java].

Michael Morris

We have a number of initiatives we think will help to grow that substantially. We do believe OEMs...will become an increasing portion of Sun's revenue.

Joe Heel

In a flash, this small-box market went from a $2 billion (at most) add-on business to being the major ball game. Up to this point, all of Sun's R&D focus and inherent competitive advantage was in big systems and the vertical enterprise systems business.

John Shoemaker

They're good enough to beat top teams on any given night. A seven-game series certainly makes it tougher. Can the Suns shut a team down when they're not scoring? The jury's still out.

Tom Chambers

Sun apparently decided that it no longer likes the deal it made more than a year and a half ago. Sun's suit may make for good PR, but its claims are not grounded in fact or law. We are disappointed that it has come to this, but we have upheld our end of the bargain. Sun has not.

Tom Burt

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

Alexander Scriabin

That's true. fresh snow will keep the temperatures 10-15 degrees colder than if it were bare ground. (It is) almost like the ground is being air conditioned. The sun's energy heats the ground, which in turns heats the air.

Paul Douglas

This is the first time in Sun's 25-year history that we've made 100 percent commitment to be in the industry-standard architecture market, so customers can rely on us to be in this market for a long time and to deliver best-of-class products into this market.

Andy Bechtolsheim

The news out of Sun on the Niagara product is surprisingly weak. Based on Sun's early descriptions, the Niagara architecture appears to be targeting a niche (market).

Karl Freund

You've got to give the Suns credit for their execution. I think we played even with them, although they had a lot of great hustle plays to gain the advantage. But this is just the first game. We've got to go back to the drawing board.

Lindsey Hunter

[Sun's workstations enabled buyers to lower costs and boost efficiency just at a time -- the recession-plagued early '80s -- when cost cutting and increased efficiencies were imperative.] In hard times big companies stop investing in R&D, ... That opens doors.

Jim Collins

You can't skate two lines against the Suns, so they came in and spelled our first two lines. They helped us take the body as much as we could to slow down the Suns.

Dave Pfeifer

[Despite the promised performance improvements, the new processor] doesn't fundamentally change UltraSparc and Sun's positioning in any way, ... It's the type of incremental upgrade that computer makers sort of have to deliver.

Gordon Haff

We have said all along that we encourage our licensees to innovate the Java platform. But it must be done in such a way that passes Sun's compatibility tests.

Alan Baratz

Doesn't fundamentally change UltraSparc and Sun's positioning in any way. It's the type of incremental upgrade that computer makers sort of have to deliver.

Gordon Haff

This means customers can select their favorite [operating system] and get the benefits of Intel servers. It expands options available to [equipment manufacturers] and [information technology] managers. We're very pleased and very excited with Sun's commitment to bring this to the Intel architecture.

John Miner

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'.

Jonathan Edwards

I think Sun's primary business strategy these days is to try and file as many court cases against Microsoft as possible. I think our only point is that Sun should try and focus on making their technology work and less on trying to bring new lawsuits against Microsoft.

Jim Cullinan

This is all part of Sun's effort to remain relevant by making Solaris more attractive to users and blunting the growing interest in Linux by offering their own open-source technology.

Frank Gillett

Because Sun's and Cisco's markets and growth patterns bear so much similarity to one another, we believe that Cisco's current quarter is likely to come in below the range recently projected by management.

Lissa Bogaty

You can start to notice a little more sunlight. If you're looking for hope, the sun's power will start to increase steadily and more rapidly by the last part of this month.

Patrick Mccoy

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

George Porter

We think this is important as Sun's ability to compete in the enterprise market depends on its ability to get product out in a timely fashion.

Thomas Kraemer

Sun's complaint is based on its desire to gain access to our technical trade secrets.

John Frank

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Thomas Otway

I know buddies who are more paying attention to the Suns right now. It seems like baseball's taking a back seat to basketball.

Mike Barrett

Java Studio Creator 2 is an update to Sun's Java Studio product, which is a new generation tool attempting to simplify Java development. Java Studio Creator 2 is trying to make the Java platform more attractive to developers coming from a Microsoft Windows or 4GL tool environment.

Mark Driver

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Marty Robbins

The partner sales corner is the ideal networking opportunity for Tech Access to ensure that channel partners from emerging markets are armed with the information, skills and tools necessary to effectively provide customers with the right solution at the best price ratio from Sun's vast portfolio.

Ghalib

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns..

Jules Massenet

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

[It seems that some developers are unhappy with the conditions Sun places on licensees.] We know there are significant problems with the latest release of Java, but to fix them means you have to accept Sun's onerous license, ... The big question is, 'Why the hell am I going to help a company like Sun or Netscape?'

Rick Ross

The pollution (that) resulted from human activity may have created a haze which absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

Yun Qian

(The teams) washed cars, bared their legs, sold garage sale junk, offered luminaries, sold suns and moons, baked foods and more to raise money.

Sheila Blankenship

The sun's going to come up tomorrow. We'll be all right.

Justin Blalock

Sun's stock has already taken huge blows, is one of the better names in our group and should ultimately benefit from a strong product cycle and an expanding solutions approach, ... For now, however, we think the economic cycle probably has the upper hand.

Laura Conigliaro

The warming at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, was supported by the disappearance of enormous ice sheets, a one-third increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and changes in the seasonal distribution of the sun's energy. But the abrupt changes we documented during the last ice age seem to be almost entirely ocean driven.

Scott Lehman

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Alexander The Great

Our channel checks do suggest that overall IT spending is fairly strong ... but that [Sun's] quarter did not experience a material acceleration.

Toni Sacconaghi

It is hard to hear Sun's commentary and have any confidence that spending will reaccelerate or that numbers for most of the enterprise sector may not need to come down again. The demand jury is still out, and that's the key issue.

Thomas Kraemer

Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an esplanade where stretcher cases lay side by side, end to end, waiting for a priest to come with a monstrance that gathered sun to its gold and blazed in the sign of the cross above the stretchers.

Kathryn Hulme

Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred, Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach.

John Philips

We think such a discussion is overdue, in light of Sun's past five years of poor performance, and weak results in comparison to our peers.

Jason Ward

This week's ruling is not a big deal; it's an extremely small win for Microsoft. Microsoft gets to continue using Sun's version of Java in their products.

Tom Young

Sun's urine sample taken after the Beijing International Marathon returned negative results, so she can keep her title for the marathon race.

Zhao Jian