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yawn, let's grasp this from several fronts, Sun is now entering a 4th principal market: the N1 whatever... 1st sun created the workstation market, they properly pursued and owned it. then they opportunistically pursued the server space, opportunistically because the internet boom created ample growth for Scott and crew to prosper for a while. but they didn't pursue the market by appealing to innovators and early adopters and transitioning to the more commercial and conservative buyes, ala Geoffrey Moore.... 3rd market is the desktop, which they continue to fail in miserably...., mostly cause Scott refuses to acknowledge that desktops run windows... period, his golf game is great, but he's never tempered his view of windows, and sold what his customers want....some might argue his customers don't want windows....well in the desktop space, people just want it to work, be interoperable and not have to get a sysadmin involved every few days..to fix this or rebuild that..... about 70 % of the buying population isn't really concerned with the technical sophistication and coolness..... just do the job at a good price... Sun in the meanwhile abandoned their prowess in the workstation market, Linux compromised Solaris sales, the Sparc architecture is 3 generations back and slower than molasses... even as forgiving as Sun advocates are ....they blew... and began pursuing other options... N1 is a half hearted attempt to capture the conservative IT manager, director, CTO or commercial or enterprise customer..... the idea is great, but we know scott hasn't delivered a "whole product" yet, except for the workstation. the job will be very challenging and even now fails the "vc elevator test" explain it in 2 sentences....... i wish scott would really give his company a chance to be successful...he's got some super people there, they have Java and aren't making any money on it.... the servers are being assimilated by the Dell borg machine.... Admins...don't fret., it's very unlikely sun will ever take this initiative....very far, more than likely it will be a warmed over "star office".....we'll know when scott "get's it"... then the old sun roars back....a reborn supernova... but for now...... I would only sell these guys short... - khwebster.