Grab your shades, entrepreneurs. Sun is about to shine on you. In announcing its Solaris 10 OS last week, Sun Microsystems gave a whole lot of talk about Web 2.0 and Sun’s intention to “aggressively” go after early-stage companies building “Web-tier” applications. In the late 90s, Sun was the “dot in Dot Com.” Today, the company seems to have missed the “point” in Web 2.0. Startups are building their applications on open source operating systems, free or low-cost Web services, and commodity hardware. Sun has struggled for much of the last decade to transform itself from a hardware supplier to a software company. In the first Internet boom, that struggle was hardly noticed as well-funded startups bought Sun servers by the truckload. Java evangelism supported the software group’s efforts, but in most every instance software was a bundle in a hardware sale.

In this current Internet wave – Web 2.0 – that close association between Sun’s hardware and software has virtually locked Sun out of the startup market. Cost-conscious entrepreneurs are turning to open source systems and commodity hardware. And even though Sun turned much of its software over to the open source community nearly a year ago, scrappy developers have opted for Linux and X86 hardware over Sun’s offerings. With the Solaris 10 announcement last week, and the love-fest with Intel this week, Sun is making a clear move to

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When I hear talk about the need for flexibility and adaptability in business, it's generally a discussion about business models and strategic direction. In any company, especially a start-up, the ability to evolve and morph to meet with changing market needs, customer demands and even unexpected product development is imperative.

But there's one more part to evolution that many people seem to forget.

The people.