For starters, Schwartz has to do what few have done with the cloud computing discussion: answer the hard questions around security, compliance, and identity management with a disruptive view that speaks to Sun’s strengths. Sun has dogs in these hunts, and credibility with communities, particularly the beleaguered financial service which threaten Sun’s survival as they collapse and merge.

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." (p. 71)