After founding Sun Microsystems and helming the CEO position for 22 years, Scott McNealy stepped down as head of the company in April to make way for new leadership.

News of his departure got journalists writing about how much the quick-witted industry icon would be missed.

Over the last few years, Sun, now led by CEO Jonathan Schwartz, has been trying to turn the tide and regain its glory days. Responding to new market dynamics, the Java creator announced in 2005 its plan to make Solaris an open-source project called OpenSolaris. It also went on to reveal its intention to open source Java by the end of 2006 and complete the process in 2007.

In November, Sun revealed that it would adopt the GNU General Public License (GPL) to govern open source Java.

So far, things seem to be looking up for the server maker. According to IDC's latest report on the worldwide server market for the third quarter, Sun's server revenue rose 15.8 percent to US$1.3 billion. Sun accounted for 10 percent of the market.

This company is listed in Systems, Storage Management, Software Infrastructure, Business Applications, Services.

Financials

Fiscal year-end June	FY06	FY05	FY04	FY03	FY02
Global full-year revenue (US$millions)	13,068.0	11,070.0	11,850.0	11,434.0	—
Global full-year net income (US$millions)	-864.0	-107.0	-388.0	-3,429.0	—

Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years	5.03 %
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years	-182.12 %
Percentage of revenue from Asia	—
Percentage of Asian revenues from channel	—

Operations:

Founded	USA/1982
First Asian office	Asia, Australia/1986
Global employees	37,000
Employees in Asia	—
Asian countries: Total 9	China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand
Notes	* Data correct as at September 2006. Information was compiled by ZDNet Asia from sources such as official reports, corporate Web sites, and Hoover's. ZDNet Asia strived to get the latest information but does not guarantee the correctness or completeness of the data. The information provided on this site is for general informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or sell any securities.

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Unless I got the information wrongly, Indonesia and Philippines are joint ventures not Sun Microsystems Owned entities.
Posted by anonymous on Thursday, January 04 2007 02:51 PM

There are offices in Korea too
Posted by anonymous on Thursday, January 04 2007 03:05 PM

Joint ventures are considered as having a presence. Sun has confirmed that they have established presence in both countries through joint ventures: PT Sun Microsystems Indonesia and Sun Microsystems Philippines Inc.
Posted by ZDNet Asia editorial on Monday, January 08 2007 02:46 PM

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