Founded: February 1982.
Vision: Everyone and everything participating on the network.
Mission: To create the technologies and fuel the communities that power the Participation Age.
Cause: To eliminate the digital divide while making the planet better off.
Markets: Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services, Government, Education and Research, Healthcare, Internet Services, Manufacturing, Transportation, Energy
Value Proposition: For companies and developers building a complete IT infrastructure, Sun delivers more choice, better value and unsurpassed innovation for the network computing model.
Employees: Approximately 38,000 worldwide at the end of fiscal 2006
Revenues: $13.1 billion in fiscal 2006
Products and Services: Systems, software, storage and services that provide customers with an end-to-end IT infrastructure. Sun supports customers who want both value-added innovation and low barriers to exit for the entire enterprise "systems" stack.
Tagline: The Network is the Computer.
Strategy: Sun engineers solutions that address our customers' biggest, most important problems. We share our solutions in order to grow communities, increase participation, and create world-changing new market opportunities. We innovate the world's best infrastructure technology, based on more than two decades of network computing experience.
Ranking: 211 on the Fortune 500.
Stock: Sun's common stock is traded on The Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol JAVA.
Locations: Sun can be found in more than 100 countries:
http://www.sun.com/worldwide/index.jsp
