Ed zander, the chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems, remembers 1995 as a difficult year. "We were flatlined. 'Wintel' [the combination of Windows software with Intel chips] was going to be the architecture for business and that was that." For a company so comprehensively written off by its own people, Sun today looks in remarkably good health. An incidental bonus for the firm's famously belligerent chief executive, Scott McNealy: the revenues of Microsoft, Sun's arch-foe and Wintel's creator, are slowing as it flails against the antitrust case that Sun vociferously backed.
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