Is your company toast? You might expect Scott McNealy, the boss of Sun Microsystems, to consider the question insulting. But he has now heard it too many times since assuming the helm of the Silicon Valley computer maker 18 years ago to take offence. Sun, he will tell you, is still a powerhouse. The company that created the Java programming language is, after all, also the world's leading vendor of powerful network computers, called servers. It had revenues of more than $18 billion in fiscal 2001, and has nearly 44,000 employees worldwide.
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