The Mercury News has an aritcle at http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14418693.htm about Scott McNealy stepping down as the CEO of Sun. He will remain at Sun as the Chairman of Sun Federal. Whether you agreed with him or not there is no denying that Sun has pushed other hardware vendors and that Java has influenced Microsoft .NET so the competition has helped all of us in IT. I don't expect Sun to have any major changes other than the rumored large layoffs but it will be interesting to see what the future brings.