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Awards

Innovative products and services.

Sun's relentless drive for innovation with value, the quality of our products and services, and the way in which we run our company keeps Sun at the forefront of industry and corporate recognition.


Training Magazine 2008 Top 125 Training Organization



Brandon Hall Research

2008 Excellence in Learning Awards

  • 2008 Gold Award for Best Use of Mobile Learning
  • 2008 Gold Award for Best Use of Blogs, Wikis or Other Content-Sharing Tools for Learning

  • 2008 Bronze Award for Best Learning Team
  • 2008 Bronze Award for Best Innovation in Learning Technology

American Society for Training and Development

2008 BEST award for overall excellence in learning and professional development, Sun was recognized for driving Web 2.0-style informal learning programs that Sun calls "just in time, just enough, just for me" learning.


InfoWorld "2008 Technology of the Year Awards"

Most Innovative Server OS: Sun Solaris 10

01/07/08

"No server operating system satisfies more varied requirements or boasts a wider range of brilliant features."

Best File System: Sun ZFS

01/07/08

"It's not every day that the computer industry delivers the level of innovation found in Sun's ZFS."

Best Storage Server: Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper)

01/07/08

"The Sun Fire X4500 is nicknamed 'the Thumper' for a reason."

Developer.com Product of the Year 2008

Framework: Java SE 6

01/15/08

"Java SE 6 also received the largest number of votes when all categories were put together."


Fast Company's "The World's Most Innovative Companies"
Relentless Innovation

Sun was named as one of Fast Company's "The World's Most Innovative Companies," for its "mad scientist approach to energy efficiency." (03/01/08)


CRO Magazine 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008
Corporate Responsibility

Sun ranked #19 in CRO Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008," and behind only Intel (#1) and Cisco (#14) of technology companies making the list. IBM ranked #21, but neither HP nor Dell made the list. (02/19/08)


Fortune Magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies"
Global Leadership

Sun was ranked #6 among Fortune Magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" within the Computers category, jumping from the #8 position in 2007. Sun ranked #2 in Innovation within the Computers category, surpassed only by Apple. (03/17/08)


SearchDataCenter "2007 Product of the Year - Gold Award"

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220

01/14/08

"These servers are capable of web serving over 4x the number of users, in one-quarter the space at nearly one-quarter the cost, with reportedly 6x better performance per watt compared to competitive UNIX/RISC-based servers."

Sun Overview

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