Green: Well, the [interoperability] program continues to move ahead. We announced a Web services-based interoperability technology at JavaOne, and that stuff is available for download on the Web and people are using it. The Vista program, we're looking at very closely for other interoperability activities. Right now our focus is to ensure that all Vista customers have the latest version of Java SE available to them, and so we're working to ensure that the downloads and bundles from OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] have a version of Java that works perfectly well with Vista. So that's really our near-term focus, is Java and Vista integration.

IW: How is Solaris doing as far as competing with Linux these days?

Green: Well, the growth rates are remarkably high with Solaris. Going from zero to six million licensed downloads in about a year is a very impressive comment in the industry, and having 16,000 developers in communities contributing to the technology, etc., all speak to a much higher growth rate than we're seeing in Linux or Red Hat or SuSE right now. You know, we're only a year into the program. You'll see a lot more activity this year in open source availability, community building, developer programs around Solaris 10 in the next year. I think you'll see even further acceleration in Solaris 10.

IW: Are there any software innovations in the labs or that are on the drawing board that we might anticipate in the next year, two years, three years, that are going to maybe be as dramatic as Java was?

Green: I think sooner than that, what you're going to see is sort of a two-step process coming from Sun in the area of essentially Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service offerings. There are a number of trends in the industry that we're lining up to service. One is to ensure that companies who have enterprise-scale internal solutions can convert those quickly to Web 2.0 customer-facing solutions, and that's going to be a big trend coming out of Sun, both from the labs as well as the software organization. You'll see a lot of activity around that. The other observation, outside of just this observation, is there are thousands of startups out there who are building essentially Web 2.0 service-based solutions that are forced to start from scratch and building a complicated stack of software. And we're pretty convinced we can help them out with our experience in network computing, Solaris containers, developer programs, Web 2.0 functionality, identity. There's a lot of technology that we have to afford to all of these new companies who are building these new services. And some of that is from the labs, some of that is from the software technology programs that we have at Sun, and those are some of the big trends you'll see coming forward out of Sun.