Most likely what he meant was that Sun's IT department would no longer manage its own data centers but do an internal outsourcing arrangement with Sun's managed services arm like those who run Network.com. HP has a similar arrangement where it eats its own professional services dogfood.

Hilarious that a comment on an employee blog can lead to the CEO having to take time out to make a statement! I bet Schwartz is regretting the "cuddle-up-with-the-bloggers" push now, I expect some limitations on those Sun blogs soon. Seriously, did they really think letting all and sundry post what they liked to the world was a good idea? Top-rate information management there, was there even a marketing droid involved at all in approving any of these blogs?

Schwartz is playing with words. Execs @ Sun have backed up Mr. Cinque claims that Sun plans on getting rid of their datacenters.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/11/sun-virtualization-data-tech-intel-cx_ag_0111sun.html

This plan is not a well kept secret at Sun.

Maybe SunIT may not operate the datacenter, but possibly serve different parts of their applications from a combination of Network.com and providers such as Oracle. Network.com is not SunIT managed, and as long as it exists, JS is not quite lying.