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To: sixty2nds who wrote (62975)	5/3/2005 10:18:30 AM
From: Luce Wildebeest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive of Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW), declined to comment on rumors the company is going private. "I'm not going to comment on the rumor no matter how accurate or silly it may be," he told CNBC Tuesday. What he would talk about is the growing importance of government business for his company. Sun has traditionally been very strong in defense and law enforcement, he said, but the focus is now on helping automate on governments around the world. "We're making a statement to governments around the world (that) we can help them and bring commercial technology to help in the public sector," McNealy said. He added that "the beauty of governments is they never get smaller...Especially internationally, governments are very involved." McNealy said the company is also looking to move beyond hardware and software into other areas, including new services that run on its grid of Sun networks computers. "We have to standardize and move to the utility compute model. It will take a long time but it is where we have to go," McNealy said.