I have to say I am relieved ... Sun needs to focus on three areas in addition to their hardware:

1. Java - already ubiquitous (ish), Sun gets money for support and software

2. OS and pieces of OS - Sun gives away Solaris, ZFS, MySQL etc., but in return they get support contracts and such

3. Storage (hardware and software) - Storagetek is still selling, and they have SAM-QFS, Honeycomb, and their flash-based iSCSI/CIFS/NFS stack

4. Hardware - Sell me a SPARC T1 or T2 system for under $1000 please, and get your volumes up and people familiar with their performance.