Sun and the environment issue

Interesting webcast yesterday on the environment, the surplus of dated, aging equipment and the coming proliferation of the thin client. Sun has been saying the network is the computer for a long time and finally it is becoming a reality. Everything will be ondemand now. IBM is moving that way too but Sun seems to have a real edge with its new chip structure. Very little power use, fast and inexpensive, they've effectively set a new standard in computing with this one. Sun sat stagnated (or so I thought) for so long it had me wondering if they would ever return to profitability. I was really wondering about their acquisition of a tape storage company too until yesterday. McNeily finally clarified that tape needs no power for storage but hard disk space does. Something I never really considered before and such an obvious oversight on my behalf. While some of the speakers were a little over top for me they still raised some valid points that while the technology to do some good exists no one is in favor of disrupting the status quo.