Sun Microsystems
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. Even today, Sun Microsystems is a leading maker of Unix-based, workstation computers, storage devices, and servers for powering corporate computer networks. The company is the largest to make computers that use its own chips (SPARC) and operating systems (SOLARIS). Its most talked-about product is JAVA; a programming language intended to create software that can run unchanged on any kind of computer. The company mainly sells its hardware and software to the telecommunications, financial, government, manufacturing and education markets (online). Product lines range from low price diskless units to the top of the line, higher powered graphics oriented stations. Below is a list of several Sun products:
Systems priced on average above $1 million. As part of Sun's product offering they provide various services to provide a competitive advantage in the global market place. Java software packages: Prices ranging from $23. Solaris Software: Sun's industry leading software is a strong foundation for providing continuous web tone access to information anytime, anywhere. Systems priced from $100,000 to $1 million. Value added resellers, original equipment manufactures and independent software vendors work with Sun to deliver business solutions in several countries. Sun achieved 16% increase in factory revenue; while Hewlett-Packard and Compaq showed 5% and 6% declines in entry-server factory revenues. Sun's consulting and integration experts work closely with the customer to align the information systems with the customer's business goals. Sun also offers individual and group courses at the customer's place of business or in the class-room in more than 85 countries around the world. High-end server market: This market traditionally occupied by mainframe systems, but now Sun show impressive gain in the corporate data center. Professional Services: Sun offers an integrated portfolio of services to help their customer plan, design, implement and manage innovative.
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