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rajan, how can Sun sell SPARC to another company when nobody really owns SPARC?

Sun owns a lot of SPARC related patents (presumely), plus it is the most important member of SPARC (the non-profit corp).

As for the working environment in Microsoft vs Sun: I heard exactly the opposite from what you did.

Wow, what a suprise. Well, I heard from a lot of people. One of the best software companies to be a engineer in is Microsoft, they practically respect you, and not treat you like an asset or rather liablity. I know a retired ex-Sun ex-Microsoft engineer. Guess where he prefer to work? Althouh the pay is the same, fringe benefits almost the same, he still prefered Microsoft.

Besides, what's wrong if a company treats you as an asset? Would you prefere to be a liability?

Engineers are humans, not assets. Assets, BTW, can become liablity, that's why Microsoft didn't have huge massive layoffs, while Sun everytime they go into the red do. (In the early days, Microsoft did have many brushes with the red in their books).

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Mystic TaCo: Microsoft is not so much a bohemith as an ultra efficient capitalist machine. You'll notice that by total employee count MS is not much bigger than Sun. The trick is that they understand the business of making money on computers better.

Yeah, I have to agree. Sun normally follows the hype (dotcom, remember?), while Microsoft normally makes the hype. That's the difference. But one thing about Microsoft is that they never make business decissions just to piss their competitors off. StarOffice 5.x for example was a big huge waste of money and effort, all just to piss Microsoft off.

Mystic TaCo: I would definitely buy an Xserve before I'd buy a Solaris server box.

From what I have read, you are totally not in Sun's target market. You are in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server's target market.

Sun Microsystems will release in next year Sun Desktop Linux operating system and it becomes the best and I think will be in the first place in the world.

I recently saw screenshots of Solaris' GNOME, and if anyone wants to use them, they are in for a lot of eye torture. Anyway, msot people associate Linux with Red Hat, and Solaris would have to spend a lot of money to promote its version of Linux over Red Hat, and that would have hefty cost over Solaris.

I doubt Sun would be #1 in the Linux scene. Heck, even IDC and Gartner agrees with me.

At now there is best Linux operating systems to use:
SuSE 8.1, Mandrake 9.0, Slackware 8.1, Red Hat 8.0.

I would slash out Mandrake 9.0. Red Hat 8.0 also would be slashed out, as much as I like it, it is clearly a rough .0 release.