Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy The Company Sun Microsystems is one of Silicon Valley's largest companies. It sells workstations, servers and is the creator of the Java programming language. Sun's hardware powers many large corporate networks and Internet businesses. Chief Executive Scott McNealy was one of the founders of the company and took over as CEO in 1984. He is known for his quick wit and constant jabs at Bill Gates and Microsoft. Sun had revenues of $11.8 billion in fiscal 1999. The U.S. was responsible for 52% of the company's revenues, 27% in Europe. Net income for the company was $1.1 billion in 1999. Sun Microsystems was first incorporated in February 1982 with four employees. The company introduced the first workstation that year, which included TCP/IP, now known as the Internet protocol suite. Vinod Khosla was the founding CEO of Sun and he is now a partner at venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. SUN is originally an acronym for the Stanford University Network.	Headquarters Address: Sun Microsystems 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 960-1300 Website: http://www.sun.com Press Releases No. of Employees: 29,700 Founded: 1982 Publicly Traded: Nasdaq SUNW
	Executive Officers Name (Age) Position '99 Salary * Scott McNealy (44) BA Harvard, MBA Stanford Chairman and CEO $116,154 + $3,622,500 bonus Edward Zander (52) BSEE RPI, MBA Boston University President and COO $750,000 + $1,630,125 bonus William Joy Founder and Chief Scientist $398,519 + $471,393 bonus Michael Lehman (49) VP, Corporate Resources and CFO $600,000 + $869,400 bonus Greg Papadopoulos Chief Technology Officer -- *Figures from SEC and don't include option grants. Board of Directors Scott McNealy Chairman and CEO James L. Barksdale Managing Partner, The Barksdale Group L. John Doerr General Partner/ Managing Director, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Judith L. Estrin Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems, Inc. Robert J. Fisher Executive Vice President and Director, The Gap, Inc. and President, Gap Division, The Gap, Inc. Robert L. Long Independent Management Consultant M. Kenneth Oshman Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Echelon Corporation

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