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The OS war is over, as indeed is the OS, and Sun won. This interesting and challenging thesis was one of numerous presented by Scott McNealy at a European Technology Forum event in London this morning. Say what you like about Scott, he's generally good copy, even at 8.30am gigs

Sun has commoditized their base business (expensive hardware running Solaris) with Java - sure, Java adoption is huge (much to my chagrin), but - using Java on an intel Linux box, or on a smart phone represents a tiny level of income back to Sun - one that doesn't even pay for the cost of the JavaSoft group. Eventually, this is going to be noticed by the bean counters at Sun, and the results of that will be fascinating to watch