A Sun chap came up to us at CeBIT 1999 and vouchsafed that the next iteration of its so-called Starfire stuff is codenamed Serengheti. We thought to ourselves, perhaps that is a term for something wilder than we had ever seen before. But no. It is, instead, Sun's coda for COMA, a four letted acronym that must attract a lot of attention -- for obvious reasons... ®