Sun was started by an Indian Engineer.
I do not see what all the fuss is about we send blue coller jobs to Mexico and China and we bring workers to America to do the jobs more cheaply than Americans..that is free trade at its finest!
Sun was started by an Indian Engineer.
The idea, the actual *incorporation* of SUN or the name?
From http://sg.sun.com/hotnews/press/2002/28feb.html we get:
Sun was started by four individuals in their twenties who envisioned a powerful, networked desktop computer ...and from http://www22.brinkster.com/beeandnee/quiztime/organisations.asp we get
Sun Microsystems: Sun was originally an acronym for Stanford University Network! The company was incorporated in February 1982 with four employees.The four were Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Andreas Bechtolsheim (all three from Stanford University) and Bill Joy.
Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla, the founders of Sun Microsystems, Inc., graduated from the Business School.
Sun was started by an Indian Engineer.I'm going to have to give you only *partial* credit on this one (not that I have to, not that you need to hear that from me or anyone else, but I thought I would take this 'tack' in lieu of any others) since this Indian was not an Engineer but rather a venture capitalist when he founded SUN Microsystems!
Khosla came to the United States after completing his B. Tech. degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. But before coming, he attempted to start a company in India, and confessed being frustrated by the experience. In the US, he completed a M.S. degree in biomedical sciences at Carnegie Mellon and came to Stanford University to do an M.B.A. After the management degree, getting a high-paying executive’s job at a large American corporation would have been the career path for most immigrants, but Khosla chose a different one for himself.From: http://www.siliconindia.com/magazine/display_back_issue.asp?article_id=704When he graduated from Stanford in 1979, Khosla laid down several conditions a company must meet before he would even apply. “I would only work with companies started after 1976...”Khosla said. “I would only work with companies that had less than a hundred employees.” He sent out 400 applications, but did not receive any job offers.
Vowing to become a millionaire before turning 30, Khosla turned to entrepreneurship and found a business idea and partners at a Stanford business club. Daisy Systems, a computer-aided engineering and design company, failed quickly because the economics of the market went against it.
Undaunted, Khosla scouted for opportunities to develop an inexpensive multipurpose workstation, again finding one right inside the campus -- at the Stanford University Network. He met up with Andreas Bechtolsheim, who had designed a workstation that he was licensing to companies for $10,000. The persuasive Khosla wanted Bechtolsheim to stop licensing the workstation, and instead start a company to manufacture them. He won over the German immigrant, saying, “I want the goose that laid the golden egg, and I don’t want the golden egg.”
Then 27, Khosla also roped in Scott McNealy, a buddy at Stanford business school, and Bill Joy, also of Stanford, to start Sun Microsystems. The company changed the face of computing and at a market cap of over $150 billion, it is the largest corporation founded by an Indian. Khosla though did not play a part in building the company to its present size because he was eased out of his position as CEO in 1986 because he had become an unpopular manager, and easily ruffled the feathers of employees.
P.S. If you notice in this excerpt it was a German Immigrant who had actually developed the workstation that SUN was first built on ...