Sun Microsystems

The Basic Sun Microsystems Story

Scott McNealy was determined that "Sun would run the company with Sun." This was accomplished with a decentralized IS organization that placed specific application development with the Sun operating companies.

Sun Microsystems and the Workstation Segment of the Computer Industry

• Sun Microsystem's Web Page
  
• Sun's 2000 Annual Report
  
• Introduction to Sun and Scott McNeally
  
• "Defiant Sun: Scott McNealy Sees Himself as the Last Challenger to Microsoft's Bid for Web Domination," Business Week, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 105-110.
• Southwick, Karen, High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
• Leaders of Information Technology
  
• Q&A with Scott McNealy
  
• Sun Microsystems Spotlight
  
• Bechtolsheim Resigns
  
• The State of Networking
  
• Gannes, Stuart, "Sun's Sizzling Race to the Top," Fortune Magazine, August 17, 1987.
• The New Paradigm of the Net Economy: Who Will Thrive and Who Will Perish?
  
• Sun's McNealy Plays His Java Card
  
• Interview with Scott McNealy
  
• Scott McNealy (on the Internet)
  
• Scott McNealy's Java Jive
  
• Sun's Zander Addresses Comdex
  
• Q&A with Sun's Ed Zander
  
• Intel CEO says Sun Model Doomed
  

Running Sun with Sun Equipment

• How Sun Saves Money and Improves Service Using Internet Technologies
  
• Bernard, Ryan, "The Corporate Intranet," New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pages 88-91.
• Building an Intranet
  
• Meske Perspective on Sun Intranet
  
• Testimony of Scott McNealy
  
• CIO Follow-Up: Sun CIO Bill Raduchel Talks About Additional Aspects of Web-based Computing
  

Key People within Sun Microsystems

• Scott McNealy, Chairman of Board and Chief Executive Officer
  
• Edward J. Zander, President and Chief Operting Officer
  
• H. William Howard, Senior Vice President, CIO
  
• Bill Raduchel, former CIO, Currently CTO, AOL Time Warner
  

Tips on Doing an Analysis Paper on Sun Microsystems

• Sun is deservedly proud of what it accomplishes through the use of the Internet so there is a lot of information available on the Sun web site.
• Sun wants you to think of it as the Internet company. It feels that the Internet and related networking technologies have changed the way people live, work, learn and communicate. It represents a more cost-effective way to run nearly every aspect of an enterprise. The basic question is whether Sun is in the position to capitalize on this opportunity?
• Is "open systems" as a competitive strategy something that is unique to Sun or is it one that just about every major competitor has accepted and has aggressively implemented?
• The theme of IS use should start with Scott McNeally's decision to "run Sun with Sun" and then use its very large intranet as an example of this.
• A challenge in doing this paper is getting your arms around a ton of material that is available on the Sun web pages and the Internet in general.
• A second challenge is keeping a focus on using IT to suppport core business processes versus selling network products to customers when you get to Section III of the paper.

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