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Ouch! - Scott McNealy directly insults potential customers for choosing Microsoft instead of Sun, using his typically colorful drug-dealing metaphors. I wonder if Scott realizes that the world’s first corporations (and the foundation of British world power) were collectives set up to transport and sell such drugs as tea, tobacco, rum, and opium. So it would seem that McNealy’s metaphors were completely misdirected for an audience of British government workers. Perhaps Scott is losing it due to his 98 percent pay cut. But he couldn’t be half as upset as Cisco, who has piled up more than 2 BILLION dollars of excess inventory that must now be destroyed! The thought of 2 billion dollars worth of Cisco hardware being ripped apart for scrap metal is truly mind-boggling. My first thought is “How the heck did that happen?!” and my second thought is “How do I get my hands on some of that equipment?”. The swiftness and size of the economic downturn in the tech sector has been very humbling, and more than a bit frightening. And I have to agree with Scott when he says, “People are claiming that they’re seeing the bottom. I don’t know where they’re getting that data. They certainly didn’t see the cliff, so how in the world can they see the bottom?”