"Technical muscle and a history of innovation made Sun a Silicon Valley standard-bearer. It also blinded famously combative Scott McNealy to the coming Linux wars. Now he's fighting to survive.""N1 is also more an idea on paper than an actual product, shipping only on Sun's cheapest servers. IBM, HP, and Microsoft are touting similar products. McNealy claims that Sun has at least a one-year jump on the competition, but representatives from IBM and HP argue that they have a one-year lead over Sun. The truth is, it's still early on in what promises to be the next big battle in the server wars"
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