InfoWorld, Sun’s McNealy cites Java successes: [Sun CEO Scott McNealy] stressed that the “Java Web services layer” has become the platform of choice for developers, displacing operating systems. “It is no longer cool to write to the OS, you write to the Java Web services layer. You don’t write to Windows, you don’t write to Solaris, you don’t write to Linux,” McNealy said.

He’s absolutely right. My question is, how can he see this and yet be so doggedly insistent that it matters that Solaris/SPARC and not Linux/Intel is running underneath?