I mention this often heard news item not because Sun is one day going to burn in hell for joining hands with Microsoft (and because McNealy will still be on the sinking ship), but I was going to write a short piece on how the tech sector is really on the rebound when you have companies besides IBM, most notably AMD and Apple, beating the hell of analysts’ expectations for last quarter.

Then Sun comes along and mentions that they lost 3/4 of a billion dollars. Java is a programming language that makes no money and the only reason to keep it to themselves is to reach deals with Microsoft that pay them a couple billion dollars. Well Sun, if you keep on losing money like that you only have a couple quarters left. Opteron and Linux baby, that is the path to success.

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