If SUN becoming a hardware vendor that exclusively sell server powered with Intel chips, Intel will help them. Because Intel have a lot of money for charity.

Why bother with HP, when Fujitsu is still making both sparc cpus and solaris compatible servers?

We've had a number of calls over the last 6 - 9 months from Sun trying to sell us network storage.

Apart from the fact we have no budget for such a purchase presently, I have consistently stated that we couldn't consider Sun hardware because of the uncertainty over the Oracle buy-out.

On previous calls the Sun sales guys have been quite bullish over the impact of the buy-out; however on their latest call a couple of weeks ago, as soon as I raised the Oracle buy-out as a reason not to buy they couldn't get off the phone fast enough.

Given the sheer amount of decent technology that has ended up in the wastebin as a result of HP being the biggest fish in their part of the pond, maybe Fujitsu would like to take some of Sun's assets off Oracle's hands. Or perhaps even AMD might like to take a look...