COMPANY

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	c. 1949		CEO of Autodesk, 1992-2006
Dave Ditzel	Engineer	c. 1956		Founder of Transmeta
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
J. Phillip Samper	Business	c. 1935		Gabriel Venture Partners
Eric Schmidt	Business	1955		CEO of Google
Jonathan I. Schwartz	Business	20-Oct-1965		CEO of 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
M. Kenneth Oshman	Business	9-Jul-1940		CEO of Echelon
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
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
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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