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==About the Company and its History==
  
==Sun Microsystems==
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[[Image:Sun logo.jpg|left]]
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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 the 68000 Unix System. The company trades under the symbol "SUNW" where "W" stands for world-wide. Sun was the first company to promote TCP/IP, which is currently the most 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 established a Canadian office in 1985. In 1986 Sun introduced PC-NFS and Asia and Australia Operations. 1988 was a crucial year for the company when its revenues reached a billion dollars, becoming the fastest to reach that mark. Sun opened its first center in France in 1989. Sun introduced its Solaris 2 operating system in 1991, and started its operations in Latin America the same year. Sun introduced the first ever multiprocessing desktop computer, the SPARCstation 10, in 1992. 1995 was another landmark year in its history when it introduced "JAVA", the first universal software platform. In 2001 Sun became an $18.25 billion company with an 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, and in 2006 it introduced the world’s first hybrid data server. It's been 25 years since the company was first established and Sun still continues with its quest for innovation and excellence in the field of computing.
  
==The Sun Company==
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==What they do?==
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In its early years Sun concentrated mainly on building workstations. However, currently the company is into computer networking with its expertise in systems, software, storage, and services.
  
[[Image:Sun logo.jpg|left]]Sun.com is the web site of the Sun company that has been created in 1982 and which has the goal to bring the world’s brightest technical minds together in order to solve the most complicated technical problems that may appear. They have created a network where people interact by sharing information and trying to solve problems. The company was created almost 25 years ago with the vision that the network is the computer, a vision that was supposed to connect everyone interested in sharing ideas and solving problems around the world. The Sun company rapidly became to be considered one of the most innovative leaders in the industry in what servers, storage, software and services are conserned. The company has shown that their major interest is network computing. The most interesting thing about sun.com is that it allows everyone who proves useful to be a part of the networking team. It is great to see that everyone and everything can participate on this network.
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==Products==
  
The established website has a great layout with comprehensive categories that are easy to access.
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===Software===
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*Sun's Software Portfolio
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*Sun Java Enterprise System
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*Sun Java System Suites
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*Sun Java Communications Suite
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*Sun Desktop Application Software
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*Sun Desktop Infrastructure Software
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*Studio Development Tools
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*Sun N1 Software
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*Operating Systems
  
==The Sun Mission==
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===Desktops===
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*X64 Family - Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, Sun Ultra 40 Workstation
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*SPARC Family - Sun Ultra 25 Workstation, Sun Ultra 45 Workstation
  
The Sun company’s mission is to create new technologies and encourage acommunities to be more active in the network. They do this by engeneering solutions for the customers’ problems and then sharing their solution on the network in order to encourage other communities to participate and share their thoughts and ideas. This way, by using the web site sun.com the sun team is aiming to create opportunities on the continuously changing global new market. For the sun team one of the most important things is to build and run the world’s participation infrastructure. Whatever problem you may have, concerning your server, desktop or even software the sun team will offer you a consistent design that is the result of over 20 years of experience in network computing.
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===Servers===
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*Sun Blade 6000 Modular System
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*Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000
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*Sun Fire T2000
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*Sun Fire X4600
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*Sun Fire X2100 M2
  
==Systems==
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==Services==
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===Support for Systems, Storage and Software===
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*Service Plans for Enterprise
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*Service Plans for Systems
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*Service Plans for Storage
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*Service Plans for Software
  
The company offers consiliation as far as systems are concerned, being able to help desktop clients and even high performance servers and entire computing grids.
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===Consulting & IT Services===
  
==Software==
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===Training & Certification===
  
As far as the software is concerned the sun team has come up with a quite simple strategy because they want to provide their clients with easy and free access to the entire software they may need. Sun.com provides an open portfolio that contains integrated and interoperable software that is able to run across multiple platforms andenvironments. 
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===Warranty Information===
  
==Storage==
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===Financing===
  
The Sun company has become one of the most appreciated storage market leaders by protecting and managing an immense quantity of digital archived data world wide. With the help of the sun team, their customers are now able to simplify their IT infrastructure and considerably reduce their costs.
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===Control Operating Costs===
  
==Services==
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*Sun Storage Services
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*Software Services
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*Sun Managed Services
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*Sun Connection
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*Operations Capabilities Assessment Services
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*Sun Migration Services
  
The sun team consideres that their customers should be concebtrating on their business’ needs and let them worry about running data centers. They want to deliver transparent IT services that are simple, automated and user oriented so that the customer should spend very little time to understand how to use it in order to solve the problem.
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==How big are they?==
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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.
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==About the Website==
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<span style="float: right">[http://www.sun.com/ Sun.com]
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===Homepage===
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The homepage has everything visitors are looking for - information about products and services, support, downloads, training, and development.
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===Downloads===
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Users can find downloads for their desktops, servers, software and much more in the downloads section of the homepage. The download page is a comprehensive collection of their support downloads and other new downloads.
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===Support===
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The support page covers virtually any issue that a user has. One of the striking features of their support system is the knowledge base feature, which allows a user to solve their problems by comparing them to problems which other users already had, and the remedies they were suggested. Visitors can also find the latest patches and updates to their software here.
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Support also has complete documentation for any Sun product, along with with latest alerts on virus attacks or discovered vulnerabilities. The support page also contains diagnostic tools like the Predictive Self Healing Tool, which links unique message IDs to related knowledge articles that describe the problem in more detail and/or outline a repair procedure.
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===Training===
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Users can find complete information on courses and certifications Sun offers in areas such as application development, system administration, software, systems, storage, and much more.
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==Website Rank==
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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==
 
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==Address==
 
==Address==
: 2550 Garcia Avenue
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'''Corporate Office'''
: Mountain View CA 94043 US
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:Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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:4150 Network Circle
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:Santa Clara, CA 95054
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:U.S.A
  
 
==Contact==
 
==Contact==
 
: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 
: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
: <graphic>ba852f93bf5a25016d8cc5db725840e7</graphic>
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: <email>ba852f93bf5a25016d8cc5db725840e7</email>
: 408-276-4199
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: Phone: US 1-800-555-9SUN; International 1-650-960-1300
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==References==
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#http://www.sun.com
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#http://www.alexa.com
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#http://www.wikipedia.org
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#http://www.finance.yahoo.com
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#http://www.forbes.com
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#http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/full_list/index.html
  
 
==Additional Information==
 
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
* '''Stock''': [http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SUNW SUNW]
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* '''Stock''': [http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=JAVA JAVA] (formerly SUNW)
 
* '''Alexa''': [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=sun.com Sun.com]
 
* '''Alexa''': [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=sun.com Sun.com]
  
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Latest revision as of 13:39, 12 November 2013

About the Company and its History

Sun logo.jpg

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 the 68000 Unix System. The company trades under the symbol "SUNW" where "W" stands for world-wide. Sun was the first company to promote TCP/IP, which is currently the most 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 established a Canadian office in 1985. In 1986 Sun introduced PC-NFS and Asia and Australia Operations. 1988 was a crucial year for the company when its revenues reached a billion dollars, becoming the fastest to reach that mark. Sun opened its first center in France in 1989. Sun introduced its Solaris 2 operating system in 1991, and started its operations in Latin America the same year. Sun introduced the first ever multiprocessing desktop computer, the SPARCstation 10, in 1992. 1995 was another landmark year in its history when it introduced "JAVA", the first universal software platform. In 2001 Sun became an $18.25 billion company with an 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, and in 2006 it introduced the world’s first hybrid data server. It's been 25 years since the company was first established and Sun still continues with its quest for innovation and excellence in the field of computing.

What they do?

In its early years Sun concentrated mainly on building workstations. However, 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

Sun.com

Homepage

The homepage has everything visitors are looking for - information about products and services, support, downloads, training, and development.

Downloads

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

Support

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

Training

Users can find complete information on courses and certifications Sun offers in areas such as application development, system administration, software, systems, storage, and much more.

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://www.sun.com
  2. http://www.alexa.com
  3. http://www.wikipedia.org
  4. http://www.finance.yahoo.com
  5. http://www.forbes.com
  6. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/full_list/index.html

Additional Information

Related Domains

External Links



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