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After the fall, a tech star stays scrappy

In the wake of the US attacks in which the company lost a senior staff member, and an emotional address by its founder, workers buckled down and went back to work

By Steve Lohr  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

Last Thursday, McNealy ventured to the tip of Manhattan to call on a few customers. Mostly, he heard words of appreciation. "I can't say enough about what your people did," Don Alecci, a managing director of Citigroup's technology group, told him, "when you consider that they narrowly escaped a collapsing building themselves, and then worked around the clock to get our trading operations up and running again."

While walking through the financial district, McNealy offered his thoughts on what lies ahead. "It's going to be tough, personally, for a lot of people," he said. "And we're facing a tough couple of quarters, our company and the economy. But you've got to keep the faith. This economy is going to come back, and so is Sun. And every day that something bad doesn't happen, people are getting back to business -- dealing with life."

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