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About the Company and its History

SUN which stands for Stanford University Network was founded in 1982 by group of graduates from Stanford University consisting of Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy. The actual originator of the idea was Andy Bechtolsheim who designed the first Unix Workstation. He was responsible for the design of 68000 Unix System. The company trades under the symbol “SUNW” where “W” stands for worldwide. Sun was the first company to promote TCP/IP, which is currently the widely used protocol on Internet. The company’s first big break came in 1983 when it partnered with Computervision to begin their operations in Europe. The company continued to grow and it established a Canadian office in 1985. In 1986 Sun introduced PC-NFS where Asia and Australia Operations the same year. 1988 was a crucial year for the company when its revenues reached a billion dollar the fastest to reach that mark. Sun opened its first center in France in 1989. Sun introduced its Solaris 2 operating system in 1991, also starts its operations in Latin America the same year. Sun introduced the first ever multiprocessing desktop computer SPARCstation 10 in 1992. 1995 was another landmark year in its history when it introduced “JAVA” the first universal software platform. In 2001 Sun becomes an $18.25 billion company with office in over 165 countries. Sun unveiled its most advanced UNIX operating system Solaris 10 in the year 2004, also creating world’s largest data warehouse. In 2005 the company introduced Sun Fire Servers using CoolThreads Technology. In 2006 it introduced the world’s first hybrid data server. It’s been 25 years since the company was first established and company still continues with its quest for innovation and excellence in the field of computing.

What they do?

In its early years the company concentrated mainly on building workstations. But currently the company is into computer networking with its expertise in systems, software, storage and services.

Products

Software

-Sun's Software Portfolio

-Sun Java Enterprise System

-Sun Java System Suites

-Sun Java Communications Suite

-Sun Desktop Application Software

-Sun Desktop Infrastructure Software

-Studio Development Tools

-Sun N1 Software

-Operating Systems

Desktops

X64 Family - Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, Sun Ultra 40 Workstation

SPARC Family - Sun Ultra 25 Workstation, Sun Ultra 45 Workstation

Servers

-Sun Blade 6000 Modular System

-Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000

-Sun Fire T2000

-Sun Fire X4600

-Sun Fire X2100 M2

Services

Support for Systems, Storage and Software

-Service Plans for Enterprise

-Service Plans for Systems

-Service Plans for Storage

-Service Plans for Software

Consulting & IT Services

Training & Certification

Warranty Information

Financing

Control Operating Costs

-Sun Storage Services

-Software Services

-Sun Managed Services

-Sun Connection

-Operations Capabilities Assessment Services

-Sun Migration Services

How big are they?

Sun Microsystems Inc. was ranked 187 in the list of Fortune 500 Companies, 2007. The company had annual revenue of $13 billion and loss of $864 million in the year 2007. The asset base of the company is approximately $15 billion. The company had a market share of $22.28 billion as of March 23, 2007.

About the Website

http://sun.com

The Homepage

The homepage has everything that a user is looking for. The homepage provides information about its products and services, services, support, downloads, training, development.

Downloads

The users can find downloads for their desktops, servers, software and much more in downloads section of the homepage. The download page is quite a comprehensive collection of their support downloads and other new downloads.

Support

The support page covers almost covers almost any issue that a user has. One of the striking features of their support system is the knowledge base feature which allows user to solve the problems comparing them to problems other users already had and what remedies they were suggested. The users can also find latest patches and updates to their software here. The users can also find complete documentation of the Sun product they have here. This section also contains latest alerts like virus attacks or any discovered vulnerabilities. The support page also consists of diagnostic tools like Predictive Self Healing Tool that links unique message ID's to related knowledge articles that describe the problem in more detail and/or outline a repair procedure.

Training

The visitors can find complete information about the courses and certifications Sun offers in areas like application development, system administration, software, systems, storage, etc.

Website Rank

The website had a traffic rank of 639 as of June 17, 2007 and about 0.15% of the total Internet users visit this site every day.

Languages

English

Address

Corporate Office

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

4150 Network Circle

Santa Clara, CA 95054

U.S.A

Contact

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Phone: US 1-800-555-9SUN; International 1-650-960-1300

References

1. http://sun.com

2. http://alexa.com

3. http://wikipedia.org

4. http://finance.yahoo.com

5. http://forbes.com

6. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/full_list/index.html

Additional Information

Related Domains

External Links

• Stock: SUNW
• Alexa: Sun.com