Well said, because we all know Sun doesn't actively sell and promote a version of its own OS for x86 and x64 and doesn't sell Opteron kit.

Yes. India has a lot of problems. But they are pulling themselves up from third world levels of poverty. Due to "cost of living" factors the Sun badged employees live well beyond the levels of slaves. The employess of Sun in India are an extremely small percentage of the Sun engineering population. Sun also has engineering groups in dozens of other nations (Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, etc). It's just a consequence of a global economy. Creating jobs globally (especially in countries where a companyy does business) just makes sense. As I stated before, your view of Sun is widely held but I think it's OK for me to try to balance the discussion with additional information. Most sys admins that hate Sun typically love the price/performance of Linux systems and it's VERY hard to fight that value chain. Open Source is a tremendous value system and I leverage the software and systems for my own computing needs. I'm a recently "switched" Mac user at home because I like the Unix under the hood and the robustness of the software for nomadic laptop uses. mcd