Sun’s stock hit $12.41, a 52-week low, yesterday (though it bounced back a couple of cents today), leading those meanies at 24/7 Wall Street to call for “a Viking funeral for Sun Microsystems” and say that “Sun’s shares have nowhere to go, if the firm continues to be operated in its current form.” Sorry, Joerg. On a tangentially related note, in the sense of “things that you’d think would make your company’s stock price more valuable but don’t”, Hinkmond Wong points out that Apple’s WWDC conference, which will be covered by hundreds of reporters and drooling fanboys eager for pearls of wisdom from Steve Jobs’s lips, is only a third the size of JavaOne, which gets little attention outside the industry and not as much respect within it as it used to. This proves that Sun is still three times better than Apple, or that Apple should put Java ME on the iPhone, or something. (For the record, Apple stock closed at $185.19 today. Down 18 cents, though!) Technology Industry