Facts on Sun Microsystems
* Founded 1982 by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy
* 34.200 employees worldwide, 13.9 billion dollars (9.4 billion euros) in revenues FY 2007, market cap (total
value of all Sun shares) about the same as yearly revenues
* Grew astronomically with the Web, suffered from the Web bubble, now profitable over the last four quarters
* Lead by Scott McNealy until 2006, now by Jonathan Schwartz (a prolific blogger)
* The world’s biggest contributor to Open Source: Open Office, Java (now under GPL), GlassFish, NetBeans — and soon MySQL
* Environmentally friendly; large numbers of distributed employees working at least partially from home
* Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, just south of Cupertino (MySQL’s North American headquarters)
* Counts some of the worlds most brilliant innovators amongst its current and past employees