Very interesting concept... How about we (the people) setup a new brand of servers lets call them 'Saphire' and write the backend in Java. Then we are sure that Sun will buy us out in 2 or 3 years... ;-)Its a perfect core product for a small, focused software company. But for someone the size of Sun, its in danger of falling between the cracks. Its not like the backend was written in Java. That would place it squarely in the Java product budget and lineup. But something written in Perl? Not a chance... Also, what happens to all those programmers and syseng people who were pulled off of the Raq 550 maintenance and are now doing Sun Linux work?
Gregz.