One of the granddaddies of Silicon Valley, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) may finally have to give up the good fight - presenting investors with the prospects of a quick profit grab.

Although not quite in the pantheon of Intel, Apple and Seagate, Sun has been braving its own path in technology since its founding in 1982. The paradox is that a company which professed a radical departure in business computing has itself been too slow to adapt to rapid change, and now finds itself as takeover prey.

With assets far exceeding its current valuation, investors stand to make modest gains if the company decides to break itself up, or if it finally succumbs to the takeover rumors circulating for years.

The alarm sounded louder than ever when the company report Q1 2008 earnings. A $1.68 billion loss was attributed to a slowdown in technology,

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New Home Sales for September are announced today and this will sound like a broken record, but they are expected to disappoint.  In the face of the frozen credit markets, I guess a drop of only 2000 units could be viewed as a small victory.

Consumer confidence on the other hand, is getting drastically worse. The anticipated reading of 54 would be the third-lowest reading of the year, and a 10 percent drop from last month. The expected drop this month would reverse the recent trend of increased readings. We still wouldn’t be near our lowest reading of the year which occurred in June (50.4), but looking back over the last 12 months, it is quite startling to see that the October 2007 reading was 95.6.

The advanced GDP figure for Q3 is announced Thursday, and it looks like we will be seeing a contraction compared to last quarter. This advanced

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