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John just sent this over to me.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/44663.html

Rob Enderle had this to say:

"Sun has always lacked any competence on the desktop. The company's SunRay1 thin client product was technically very compelling but remains one of the biggest inside jokes in the industry. Sun employees are famous for complaining about the performance of this system which forms the core of Sun's operations infrastructure and helps both to cripple Sun and to showcase its lack of competence on the desktop."

Now that's not right.  Literally.

I think the only joke Rob, is your understanding of Sun Ray, it's success, where it fits, and perhaps how to spell the product name.  Seems you and your firm "focuses on personal technology products and trends" (my emphasis on personal).  Last time I checked, Sun is not in the "personal" technology space.  Can't recall a MP3 player we've released. 

Rob, I think you need to look up the definition of Enterprise.  Perhaps you could do a little research that would show you Sun started on the "desktop" and is the largest contributor of open source software for the desktop.  No, that would be too responsible.  Perhaps what you really meant to say is that Desktop=Windows, if so you are a fool.

And that's all I'm going to say on this topic.  I've got customers who care about this joke to attend to.