Faith + Reason = Truth

How many of you remember SUN Microsystems?  Oh, they're still around, and even make headlines once in a blue moon.  But remember when they DOMINATED the internet hype universe?  They invented Java, for crying out loud.  And they correctly, loudly trumpeted that it would change the internet and, by association, the world.  One thing they were not correct about, however, was distributed computing:  a thin client in every home, powered by massively powerful servers...somewhere.  Maybe in your home's future "media closet", or maybe remotely.
Back on Feb. 11, Mark Cuban (famous owner of the Dallas Mavericks, co-founder of startup that he sold to Yahoo for many dollars, and loud critic of anyone purchasing Youtube due to their un-licensed content liabilities), had an interesting post on his blog about Google's model possibly dominating the pc world in the future.  It's a thin-client model, with web-hosted apps (nice dovetail with today's Google Apps news) doing the day-to-day and possibly gaming machines handling the media and entertainment.  They are well-positioned, in Cuban's view, to enjoy the spoils of victory someday.
Class, who's the CEO of Google?  Altogether now:  Eric Schmidt, formerly of Novell, but most importantly, the leader of the Java deveopment effort at SUN and a champion of its thin client, server-centric vision (who's got a bigger server farm than Google?  I can't think of anyone off the top of my head.).  And FYI, he's also on the board of Apple, which makes sense, since he was at Xerox PARC in the early 80's when Steve was pilfering PARC's amazing ideas and "inventing" the concept of Mac and its glorious GUI/window environment.
Why does everything pc-related (except for MSFT) seem to revolve around Silicon Valley?  It's the people, the history, and the relationships - nothing more, nothing less.