Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems Incorporated Four people founded Sun Microsystems, Incorporated in February 1982. Two of them were Stanford MBA graduates – Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla. A third member of the group was a Stanford engineering graduate named Andreas Bechtolsheim. The final member of the group was a UNIX software expert named William Joy who was from the Berkeley campus. The company’s objective was to produce and market computer workstations costing between $10,000 and 20,000 for scientists and engineers. …

…global company with over 45% of its revenues generated outside of the United States. Despite the ongoing macroeconomic difficulties in Japan and Southeast Asia, Sun continued to experience strong revenue growth in the United States, Europe and Latin America, demonstrating the value of a balanced geographical portfolio. With more than $10 billion in annual revenues, Sun Microsystems can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.Sun.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**