Full Description

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun), incorporated in February 1982, provides network computing infrastructure solutions. The Company offers core brands, including the Java technology platform, the Solaris Operating System, the MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions and the UltraSPARC processor. Its network computing platforms are used by search, social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy and engineering companies. The Company operates in two segments: Server Products and Storage Products. Server Products comprised of Support Services (Support Services and Managed Services), and Professional and Educational Services. In January 2009, the Company acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds.

Support Services are services that offer customers technical support, software, and firmware updates, online tools, product repair and maintenance and preventive services for system, storage and software products. Managed Services include on-site and remote monitoring and management for the components of their information technology (IT) infrastructure, including operating systems, third-party and custom applications, databases, networks, security, storage and the Web. Professional Services are services that include IT assessments, architectural services, implementation services and consolidation and migration services. Educational Services include training and certification for individuals and teams. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), Server Products represented approximately 16% of total net revenues.

Systems

The Company develops networking computing products and technologies that include energy-efficient servers, storage, open source software and tools. It offers a line of scalable servers based on SPARC64, UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon microprocessors that range from entry level servers and blade systems through data center/high-performance business critical computing servers designed for heterogeneous computing environments. The Company offers a range of Sun Fire and Sun Blade entry server systems differentiated by their size, cost, processor architecture (UltraSPARC, SPARC64, AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon), form factor (rack, blade or stand-alone systems) and the environment for which they are targeted (general purpose or specialized systems). These systems are compatible with the Solaris, Linux and Windows operating system environments.

The Company’s enterprise and data center servers, including the Sun Fire and SPARC Enterprise product families, are designed for business critical applications and computational environments. These systems are based on UltraSPARC, SPARC64, AMD and Intel microprocessor platforms and are also compatible with the Solaris, Linux and Windows operating system environments. The Company’s Sun Ray Ultra-Thin Client platforms provide an alternative to traditional desktop personal computers. It also offer a line of products aimed at the needs of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Network Equipment Providers (NEPs).

The Company’s microelectronics business develops and sells silicon-based chips that facilitate networking, cryptography and computing. These chips are utilized by OEM customers and hardware vendors worldwide in a range of devices from servers to routers, switches, network devices, medical imaging, industrial printing and more. The Company offers a range of products and services for managing mission critical data assets. Its entry-to-enterprise-level data storage products and services include heterogeneous tape, disk, software, networking and services for mainframe and open systems environments. The Company’s tape storage includes libraries, drives, virtualization systems, media and software. The extensive disk system product line includes data center disks, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Archive System, mid-range disks, workgroups disks, a boot disk and a range of disk device software.

Software

The Company’s software offerings consist primarily of enterprise infrastructure software systems, software desktop systems, developer software and infrastructure management software. It is optimized for enterprise computing, Internet and intranet business requirements, databases and technical computing environments. The Solaris Operating System runs on different server platforms, including standard x64/x86 servers. OpenSolaris is an open source project to build a developer community around the Solaris Operating System. In June 2009, Sun released the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, delivering industry features in networking, storage and virtualization, and performance enhancements and developer productivity updates. It includes Project Crossbow, a networking technology development to Solaris.

The Company’s Java technology is a global standard that powers billions of devices, from desktop browsers and computers to mobile phones and Blu-ray Disc players, televisions (TVs), Java smart cards and other connected consumer products. It also offers a range of middleware solutions including mission-critical clustering, messaging, identity management, directory, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business integration, application server and Web services infrastructure software. Other software offerings include provisioning and monitoring software for network computing resource optimization and systems management simplification. The Company offers an end-to-end portfolio of virtualization products from the desktop to the data center, including Sun xVM VirtualBox, Sun VDI and Sun xVM Ops Center. MySQL is an open source database, which provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services.

Services

The Company offers a range of services from Support Services and Managed Services for hardware, software and client solutions, to Professional Services and Educational Services. It assists customers globally with Support Services contracts in more than 100 countries.

The Company competes with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Dell Inc. (Dell), Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), EMC Corporation (EMC), Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu), Hitachi Data Systems, Inc. (HDS), Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Inc., Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft), Oracle Corporation (Oracle) and Intel Corporation (Intel).