TUESDAY MAY 14, 2002 Techbits What's Next for Sun's Zander? Ed Zander, who will leave Sun Microsystems Inc. as president and COO on July 1, has joined the board of a Massachusetts start-up. Zander, 55, signed on with Netezza, which has $28 million in venture funding. Netezza makes a high-speed database server that mines information for business intelligence. Zander "hopes to catch the next wave in computing" and thinks Netezza will upend the competition. The market for systems that mine business intelligence data is one of the few tech "hot spots," he said. Zander spent 15 years at Sun, a company that helped create the Internet boom. He likened the boom to events like the California Gold Rush and the Industrial Age. "They were incredible times that disrupted economies and also led to incredible changes." He added: "We overshot in '99 and '00 and got carried away. But don't give up. The Internet will still be a super industry." Brian Deagon