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Palo Alto, CA - For years our corporate motto has been 'The network
is the computer'," said Sun CEO Scott McNealy, "But it
turns out we were wrong."
Ironically it was a team of engineers inside Sun who broke the news
to McNealy. "I was one of a group of pessimists who insisted
on running some tests about this, just to be sure," said  Robert McGregor,
a software engineer with Sun, "The results were worse than we
could ever imagine. It turns out that we've been lying all
along. Some guy in marketing said we do that all the time. Heck,
we're not even the dot in dot com. Although we are the Sun
in Sun.com."
A marketing representative for Microsoft was not surprised, "Sun
is known for publishing misleading statements like this all the time. This
would be akin to Microsoft using the slogan 'The Browser is the Operating
System'. I mean who would believe that?"
An independent team of researchers was also able to replicate the
result of the Sun engineers. "The basic intrinsic difference
is that a network is actually a group of computers, not just one," says
MIT's Professor of Computer Science, Simon Chenery, "I'm glad
to see Sun has finally sorted this out - there's been a question
mark hanging over it in the educational community for quite some
time."
"Boy are our faces red," said McNealy, "But we're
hoping to repair the damage with our radical new slogan - 'The Internet
is the server'."
Andrew Gawthorpe contributed to this report
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