Sun has reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2008:

Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 were $3.615 billion, an increase of approximately 1.4 percent as compared with $3.566 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. Total gross margin as a percent of revenues was 48.5, an increase of 3.5 percentage points, as compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2007.

Net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 on a GAAP basis was $260 million, or $0.31 per share, as compared with a net income of $133 million, or $0.15 per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. GAAP net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 included a $32 million restructuring charge.

Cash generated from operations for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 was $336 million, and the cash and marketable debt securities balance at the end of the quarter was $4.677 billion.

Sun is buying MySQL. Sun has a press release located here regarding the purchase.

I’ve posted my review of uptime software’s current Enterprise Monitoring product, up.time 4.

Update: uptime liked my review so much they mentioned it in a press release.

This blog post by Brian Cinque details Sun’s plans to eliminate all of their in-house datacenters by 2015.