Don’t get me wrong – I like Sun. They make good equipment, the Rolls-Royce of Unix machines (hey, hot swappable CPUs! Whoo-hoo!).

You often don’t need a Rolls to drive to the corner market.

As predicted in my beginning-of-the-year thoughts, Sun is in trouble.

And each quarter it gets worse.

And Linux keeps getting better, and computer boxes are becoming more and more of a commodity.

While Sun does appear to be circling around the black hole of debt, it’s still sad. But let’s face facts: The way software – and hardware – is used today has changed.

And yesterday’s SPARC Station has the processing power of today’s coffee maker.

Sun should have – years ago – woken up and smelled the coffee….