The joys of monthly journalism: my column on Sun and Linux finally got posted online today (I wrote it over a month ago). As it posts, LinuxWorld is winding down, and Sun is down again to $3.46 a share.

My boss, the mad genius, still is taking entries from the staff for the Sun-goes-out-of-business and the Sun-gets-bought-by-IBM pools (closest guess to date of transaction wins). I'm not ante-ing up yet, though–I don't think Sun is history yet, no matter how stupid they've been about the software side of their business. And I don't think IBM has enough spare cash left to buy them outright.