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...Bechtolsheim is a billionaire many times over, having been one of the founders of Sun Microsystems and the first outside investor in Google, his $100k cheque allowing Larry Page and Sergey Brin to move from...
...In the 2001 crash, companies such as Cisco and Sun Microsystems that supplied start-ups with servers, routers and software got hammered along with their customers....
...But even as the letter of intent was being finalised, Mr Zafirovski was being passed over and Ed Zander, from Sun Microsystems, was brought in to be Motorola’s chief executive....
...As for a car, Ms Sun thinks buying one in Beijing is “foolish”, given the city’s well-developed subway network and chronic traffic jams. Ms Sun’s economising does not stop there....
...Ms Denholm is Australian but also holds US citizenship, which she received while living and working in Silicon Valley for 16 years, including stints at Sun Microsystems and Juniper Networks....
...Ms Denholm left Australia for Silicon Valley with her two children — Matthew and Victoria — in 2001 when she was offered a job in Colorado by her employer Sun Microsystems....
...HP’s deal, uniting a pair of computer hardware makers facing relentless pressure on profits margins, was likened at the time to “two garbage trucks colliding” by the head of rival Sun Microsystems....
...Other smaller cable network owners such as AMC Networks are feeling the pinch as cable and broadband providers get bigger and the likes of Netflix and Facebook compete for video viewers....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 1. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved. Related stories That’s a wrap!...
...For his new company, Mr Bechtolsheim — who had been one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, one of the star hardware companies of the 1990s — was able to tap a new wave of independent chipmakers, effectively...
...Those who succeeded, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, became linchpins in a support system for their fellow nationals, ranging from formal business groups to ad hoc networks for mentoring...
...After years of working in various roles at Silicon Valley companies such as Apple, Yahoo and Sun Microsystems, she was taking up a job in the UK as Skype’s product development director....
...By targeting the big corporate customers with the most demanding datacentre needs, he claims that Nutanix has reached $100m in lifetime revenue quicker than any hardware start-up since Sun Microsystems....
...Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems and a leading venture capitalist, described them as “People who are foolish enough to make dreams come true” when he spoke recently on campus....
...The prospect has excited big names such as Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold, his former chief technology officer, and Evan Williams, a co-founder...
...From Google to Sun Microsystems, many start-ups come out of universities, but not so often from business schools....
...The cluster of characterless buildings, built along the south-east shore of the San Francisco Bay, belonged until recently to Sun Microsystems....
...Wall Street expects a 15 per cent decline in hardware sales as revenues from its new high-end Exadata, Exalogic and Exalytics products fail to cover the commoditisation from which its Sun Microsystems acquisition...
...MySQL was one of Europe’s largest technology success stories, employing 500 people, when it was sold to Sun Microsystems of the US for $1bn in 2008....
...The idea has been invading the corporate computing market as well, where Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year was seen as a milestone....
...Its modern offices are light and airy with “sun pipes” and an atrium, enabling staff to be safely exposed to natural sunlight, which increases production of vitamin D and a feeling of wellbeing, while the...
...Tech news from around the web: James Gosling, the programmer who founded Java at Sun Microsystems, has joined Google, Cnet reports....
...The company has also invested in Toumaz Microsystems, which designs ultra low-powered microchips that could be embedded in household appliances to create an “internet of things”....
...While the country has exported some of its best talent there, including Mr Galitsky, an old friend of Google’s Eric Schmidt from Sun Microsystems, with the current legal environment it is doubtful the Kremlin...
...As chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Mr Schmidt was among the main proponents a decade ago of “thin clients”, or machines that relied on networks for data storage and computing power rather than...
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