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Sun Microsystems
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 |
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CEO of Yahoo, 2009-11 |
| William T. Coleman III |
Business |
c. 1948 |
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CEO of BEA Systems, 1995-2001 |
| Dave Ditzel |
Engineer |
c. 1956 |
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Founder of Transmeta |
| Joachim Heel |
Business |
c. 1966 |
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Senior VP at Sun Microsystems |
| Bill Joy |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1954 |
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BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java |
| Vinod Khosla |
Business |
28-Jan-1955 |
|
Venture capitalist |
| John S. McFarlane |
Business |
c. 1948 |
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Former Sun Microsystems executive |
| Scott McNealy |
Business |
13-Nov-1954 |
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Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems |
| Thomas J. Meredith |
Business |
c. 1950 |
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CFO of Dell, 1992-2000 |
| Marissa T. Peterson |
Business |
c. 1961 |
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Former EVP, Sun Microsystems |
| George Reyes |
Business |
c. 1954 |
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CFO of Google, 2002-08 |
| J. Phillip Samper |
Business |
c. 1935 |
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Gabriel Venture Partners |
| Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
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CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
| Jonathan I. Schwartz |
Business |
20-Oct-1965 |
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CEO of Sun Microsystems |
| Bert Sutherland |
Engineer |
1936 |
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Scientist at Sun Microsystems |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
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Father of computer graphics |
| Dorothy A. Terrell |
Business |
12-Jun-1945 |
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VP at NMS Communications, 1998-2002 |
| Bud Tribble |
Business |
c. 1953 |
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Apple, NeXT |
| Edward J. Zander |
Business |
12-Jan-1947 |
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CEO of Motorola, 2004-07 |
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Steve Bourne |
Computer Programmer |
? |
|
/bin/sh |
| Whitfield Diffie |
Scientist |
5-Jun-1944 |
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Invented public key cryptography |
| John Gage |
Business |
c. 1942 |
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Sun Microsystems |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tim Bray |
Computer Programmer |
21-Jun-1955 |
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Co-Inventor of XML |
| Jim Ellis |
Computer Programmer |
c. 1956 |
28-Jun-2001 |
Usenet co-creator |
| Deborah D. Rieman |
Business |
c. 1951 |
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CEO of CheckPoint Software, 1995-99 |
| Tsutomu Shimomura |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1964 |
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Helped catch Kevin Mitnick |
| Rich Skrenta |
Computer Programmer |
1967 |
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First PC virus, Elk Cloner |
EXTRANEOUS
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