The Week Ahead: Jan. 10-14, 2005

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Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW – news – people ) and its CEO Scott McNealy will report second-quarter results on Jan. 13, and will likely give updates on the dramatic changes the company is undertaking to turn itself around. Consider its strategic initiatives–Sun has an alliance with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT – news – people ), a partnership with Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD – news – people ) for Opteron-based servers, and a partnership with Fujitsu, not to mention broad cost-cutting efforts across the board and its continued sale of Linux servers.