Top Results for Sun Microsystems
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as its first chairman and chief executive before moving into venture capital, initially at Kleiner Perkins and later through Khosla Ventures, which he founded. His investmen...
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Sun co-founder and Khosla Ventures founder with major technology influence; cleantech bets produced mixed outcomes.
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Scott McNealy is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as its chief executive for most of the company's independent history. Sun developed networked workstations, servers, the Solaris operating system, and the SPARC processor architecture; its enginee...
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Sun leadership, Java-era infrastructure, and workstation influence are strong; eventual decline and sale temper reputation.
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