cygwin and ms-sfu

["James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>]

OK, here's something unrelated to biology in general and hippos in particular.

News reports have it that ms is integrating features of sfu into their next
windows server release, leading me to suspect it may become an integral part of
longhorn-professional too.  _And_ they hired the founder of Gentoo (reportedly)
to set up  a portage-like directory of ported unix software for use with sfu.

This could really rock, esp if they make x.org one of the first ported apps. 
Is cygwin in danger of being surpassed/obviated?

The cygwin architecture is based on win32, which is necessary to support win9x,
but ms isn't worried about that.  ms-sfu is programmed without using the win32
subsystem, which just represents another layer to go through in the winnt
architecture.  Should cygwin consider an architectural change, dropping win32
support, and programming directly to the native winnt api?

And, why do I have to mention hippos?