COMPANY

Founded 1982 by Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy. Acquired 2010 by Oracle.

Official Website:
http://www.sun.com/

Industry:
Computer

Ticker:
NASDAQ:JAVA

Corporate headquarters:
Santa Clara, CA

Sales:
$13.9B (2007)

Employees:
33,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mitchell Baker	Activist	c. 1957		Mozilla Foundation
Carol Bartz	Business	29-Aug-1948		CEO of Yahoo, 2009-11
William T. Coleman III	Business	c. 1948		CEO of BEA Systems, 1995-2001
Dave Ditzel	Engineer	c. 1956		Founder of Transmeta
Joachim Heel	Business	c. 1966		Senior VP at Sun Microsystems
Bill Joy	Computer Programmer	8-Nov-1954		BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java
Vinod Khosla	Business	28-Jan-1955		Venture capitalist
John S. McFarlane	Business	c. 1948		Former Sun Microsystems executive
Scott McNealy	Business	13-Nov-1954		Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems
Thomas J. Meredith	Business	c. 1950		CFO of Dell, 1992-2000
Marissa T. Peterson	Business	c. 1961		Former EVP, Sun Microsystems
George Reyes	Business	c. 1954		CFO of Google, 2002-08
J. Phillip Samper	Business	c. 1935		Gabriel Venture Partners
Eric Schmidt	Business	27-Apr-1955		CEO of Google, 2001-11
Jonathan I. Schwartz	Business	20-Oct-1965		CEO of Sun Microsystems
Bert Sutherland	Engineer	1936		Scientist at Sun Microsystems
Ivan Sutherland	Engineer	16-May-1938		Father of computer graphics
Dorothy A. Terrell	Business	12-Jun-1945		VP at NMS Communications, 1998-2002
Bud Tribble	Business	c. 1953		Apple, NeXT
Edward J. Zander	Business	12-Jan-1947		CEO of Motorola, 2004-07

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jim Barksdale	Business	24-Jan-1943		CEO of Netscape, 1995-99
Stephen M. Bennett	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Intuit, 2000-07
Peter L. S. Currie	Business	c. 1956		CFO of Netscape, 1995-99
Robert J. Finocchio, Jr.	Business	c. 1951		CEO of Informix, 1997-99
James H. Greene, Jr.	Business	c. 1950		Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Michael E. Marks	Business	31-Dec-1950		CEO of Flextronics, 1994-2006
Scott McNealy	Business	13-Nov-1954		Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems
Patricia E. Mitchell	Business	c. 1943		CEO of PBS, 2000-06
Tony Ridder	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Knight Ridder, 1995-2006
Jonathan I. Schwartz	Business	20-Oct-1965		CEO of Sun Microsystems

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Doerr	Business	29-Jun-1951		Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Judith L. Estrin	Business	1954		Packet Design LLC
Robert J. Fisher	Business	1954		Interim CEO of The Gap
M. Kenneth Oshman	Business	9-Jul-1940	6-Aug-2011	CEO of Echelon, 1988-2009
Naomi O. Seligman	Business	c. 1939		The Research Board

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steve Bourne	Computer Programmer	?		/bin/sh
Whitfield Diffie	Scientist	5-Jun-1944		Invented public key cryptography
John Gage	Business	c. 1942		Sun Microsystems

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tim Bray	Computer Programmer	21-Jun-1955		Co-Inventor of XML
Jim Ellis	Computer Programmer	c. 1956	28-Jun-2001	Usenet co-creator
Deborah D. Rieman	Business	c. 1951		CEO of CheckPoint Software, 1995-99
Tsutomu Shimomura	Physicist	23-Oct-1964		Helped catch Kevin Mitnick
Rich Skrenta	Computer Programmer	1967		First PC virus, Elk Cloner

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ed Felten	Computer Programmer	25-Mar-1963		Broke SDMI
Stanley B. Greenberg	Business	10-May-1945		Pollster

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