Sun has announced preliminary results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008, ending on June 30th.

Sun expects to report revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 in the range of $3.725 to $3.800 billion, as compared with $3.835 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007. Total gross margin as a percent of revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 is expected to be in the range of 44 to 45 percent.

Sun anticipates reporting GAAP net income per diluted share for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008 in the range of $0.05 to $0.15. GAAP net income per diluted share includes a restructuring charge of approximately $100 million. On a non-GAAP basis, Sun expects to report net income per diluted share in the range of $0.25 to $0.35. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share excludes purchased in-process research and development, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, stock-based compensation expense, restructuring charges and related impairment of long-lived assets, gain or loss on equity investments, settlement income and the related income tax effects of non-GAAP exclusions.

“In these difficult economic times, we continue to see customers across the world look to open software and hardware as a source of savings, and feel Sun is well positioned with our most robust line ever of server, storage, software and service offerings,” said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems.

Sun and Fujitsu have announced new SPARC Enterprise systems, available with the new quad-core SPARC64 VII processor or the older dual-core SPARC64 VI chip.

The M4000 can have up to four quad-core processors and 128G of memory.

The M5000 can have up to eight quad-core processors and 256G of memory.

The M8000 can have up to sixteen quad-core processors and 512G of memory.

The M9000 can have up to sixty-four quad-core processors and 2T of memory.

Sun today released new Open Storage product offerings.

The Sun Fire X4540 second-generation “Thumper” server features dual quad-core Opteron processors, a maximum of 64G memory, and up to 48TB of storage in a 4U enclosure.

The Sun Fire X4240 has one or two AMD Opteron processors (2-8 processor cores), a maximum of 64G memory, and up to 2TB of storage in a 2U enclosure.

The Sun Fire X4140 has up to two AMD Opteron processors (2-8 processor cores), a maximum of 64G memory, and up to 1TB of storage in a 1U enclosure.

The Sun Fire X4150 has up to two Intel Xeon processors (2-8 processor cores), a maximum of 64G memory, and up to eight SAS drives in a 1U enclosure.

The Sun Storage J4200 Array is a SAS JBOD tray that holds from 146G to 36TB of storage (2-12 disks) in a 2U enclosure.

The Sun Storage J4400 Array is a SAS JBOD disk shelf that holds from 876G (in a single 12-disk 4U tray) to 192TB of storage (24 disks in two 4U trays).

The Sun Storage J4500 Array is a SAS JBOD disk shelf that holds from 24TB (in a single 48-disk 4U tray) to 192TB (4 trays in 16U)