McNealy it seems to me, is ultimately a product of California Uber Alles thinking, one of the cadre of executives that evidently believe the rest of the world will fall into line with the US West Coast. The only real innovation happens in the USA. The only real innovation happens at Stanford... But the global economy is not a clone of California, Starbucks notwithstanding.
When the boat nearly sunk, Europe bailed it out. Why replace Sun products partly for fashion reasons? Europeans are far less likely to throw out IT infrastructures because of what the chatterati are saying. That is what the aggressive conservatives at the major financial institutions on the US Eastern seaboard do...
