Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems four co-founders Scott Mcnealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, and Andreas Bechtolsheim founded Sun in 1982. The four co-founders were students of Stanford University where they initially started the company to sell clones of the Stanford University Network workstation. Their vision was to ensure that network services were available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, using any device. The company is now one of the leading providers of industrial strength hardware, software, and services for building and maintaining network computing environments. Some of Sun¡¦s major accomplishments since inception in 1982 are listed below:
„« 1983: Sun and Computervision sign a $40 million OEM agreement
„« 1986: PC-NFS technology introduced and Sun has a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO)
„« 1988: Sun reaches $1 billion in revenue-faster than any other computer company with a direct sales force
„« 1991: More than half a million systems were shipped to ...