If you mean the culture that mismanaged Sun into oblivion, yes, hopefully, it's dead. I trust Larry Ellison has, at least, the gift of identifying what's wrong.<p>Sun is far more interesting than the JAVA ticker may betray. They have an impressive lineup of servers, processors, compilers and OSs, all of them being able to do stuff most competitors cannot even approach.<p>It's however, a dysfunctional and disjointed collection of very cool technologies that add little or no value to the Sun brand because almost nobody a) knows Sun still exists and b) knows the technologies exist.<p>Now we can bitch about what they haven't done, and what hit products they didn't launch and how an incredibly cool company ended up being part of the ultimate uncool one.<p>It could be worse. It could be Microsoft.