More on the SUNW/JAVA Ticker Flip

By Paul Kedrosky · August 27, 2007 · ·

Another example of why Sun flipping tickers from SUNW to JAVA is wrongheaded: It messed with one of my streaming spreadsheets.

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Comments

  1. Rafael Montoya says:
    August 27, 2007 at 10:13 am

    Another case of marketing wreaking havoc…

  2. dub dub says:
    August 27, 2007 at 10:58 am

    What I really want to know is how sun and foster wheeler end up next to each other on the same spreadsheet ;)

  3. Joe says:
    August 27, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    Might I ask what service you use to stream the data into your spreadsheet? Bloomberg?