The company and its offerings

With more than $13.1 billion annual revenues and approximately 35,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide (Fiscal Year 2006), Sun Microsystems is one of the most influential companies in the Information Technology scenario thanks to its research initiatives and the continuous innovation of its solutions.
Sun Microsystems has been operating in Italy since 1987 with offices in Milan, Padua, Turin and Rome.

"The Network is the Computer™" has been Sun's driving vision since its inception in 1982, reflecting its commitment to providing technologies, products and services expressly designed for all companies and organizations looking to benefit from network advantages in terms of information, data and applications.

Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the "Participation Age", in which communities, collaborating with each other through the network, will be able to contribute to the technological, financial and social development and the birth of new ideas and business opportunities.

According to Sun, the creator of Java™ technology and the largest code contributor to free and open source communities, open standards and the Open Source development model are among the accelerators of technological innovation as they contribute to promoting and sharing ideas and creativity; the release of Solaris 10™ source code (OpenSolaris project) and the very recent release of Java source code ratify the company's commitment in this regard.

In particular, in Italy Sun promoted the Java Open Business (JOB) initiative with the goal of fostering the creation of an ecosystem for the development a new generation of applications for Italian SMEs through the Open Source collaborative model.

Sun offers all its components and the expertise required for the Java™ technology, Solaris 10™ implementation and management of network infrastructures, transforming technology in business results through streamlined processes, increased productivity and cost reductions.

The Sun organization is focused on four business areas - Systems, Storage, Software and Services - that correspond to the four principal components of its offering.

For further information: www.sun.it, www.javaopenbusiness.it