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The must-read summary of Karen Southwick's book: "High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems".
This complete summary of the ideas from Karen Southwick's book "High Noon" tells the story behind the success of Sun Microsystems from its creation in 1982 to 1999, when over half of companies worldwide were using Java technology and Sun became a $9 billion company. In her book, Karen Southwick describes how, despite technical glitches and intense pressure, the company delivered outstanding sales in its first year, setting it on the path to continued success. This summary reveals the history of this ground-breaking company, which is sure to inspire you to break conventions and take calculated risks in order to achieve success.
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Book Presentation High Noon by Karen Southwick
Important Note About This Ebook
Summary of High Noon (Karen Southwick)
The Sun Corporate Timeline
1. Start-Up
2. Growing Pains
3. The Sun Platform
4. Rapid Growth Mode
5. Transitional Challenges
6. A Corporate Culture of Having Fun
7. The Java Project
8. Sun vs. Microsoft
9. Sun in the 21st Century
Book Presentation High Noon by Karen Southwick
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of High Noon (Karen Southwick)
The Sun Corporate Timeline
1982
$284,000 in venture capital raised.
Sun incorporated in February 1982, with four employees.
Sun-2 workstation introduced.
1983:
Sun and Computervision sign a $40 million OEM agreement
$8.6 million in sales, $588,000 operating income.
1984
Network Filing System introduced and licensed free to the industry. Becomes the industry standard for network file sharing.
$39 million in sales, operating income of $3.7 million. McNealy appointed CEO in place of Khosla who leaves.
1985
Sun opens Canadian operations.
Sun’s first attempt to enter the PC market, the 386i, was unsuccessful.
1986
Sun-3 workstation introduced.
Sun has a successful initial public stock offering.
Sun begins operations in Asia and Australia.
$45 million in sales, now more than 2,000 employees.
1987
Sun and AT&T form an alliance to develop UNIX(R) System V Release 4.
Sun takes lead in workstation market for the first time.
Sun connects to Internet.
$538 million in revenues, $36.3 million operating income.
1988
Sun reaches $1 billion in revenue–the fastest rise ever for a computer company with a direct sales force.
7,000 employees.
Sun fails to introduce new standard for graphical user interfaces.
1989
SPARCstation 1 system introduced – using RICS technology.
Sun expands alliances with Informix, Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase.
Sun opens research and development center in France.
First quarterly loss in history – $20.3 million in 4th quarter.
1990
Sun follows up on the success of the SPARCstation 1 with four new models–including the first workstation for under $5,000. Manufacturing plant opens in Scotland.
1991
Sun’s market share in RISC–the world’s fastest, most powerful computing architecture–hits 63 percent.
More than half a million systems shipped to date.
Sun unveils Solaris 2 operating environment.
Operations begin in Latin America.
1992
Sun introduces the SPARCstation 10 system.
Sun’s name appears on Standard & Poor’s 500.
Sun ships more multiprocessing UNIX servers in a single year than any other vendor shipped in its history.
1993
In just over 10 years, Sun has shipped 1 million units.
Sun makes its debut on the Fortune 500.
Sun, IBM, HP, and others unify UNIX system software.
$4.3 billion in sales.
1994
Sun stages the Enterprise Computing Summit.
Sun’s external home page, www.sun.com, goes online.
$4.7 billion in sales.
Planets corporate structure introduced.
1995
Sun introduces Java technology which enables developers to write applications once to run on any computer.
More than 100 Sun systems are used to render images for Disney’s “Toy Story,” the first computer-generated feature film.
Sun offers downloadable try-and-buy software on the Internet.
1996
Sun Ultra workstation family introduced.
Sun licenses Java technology to major hardware and software companies.
1997
Sun’s new server family introduced. Includes the 64-processor Sun Enterprise 10000 server with the processing power of four mainframes.
Web-enhanced Solaris environment introduced.
Sun files lawsuit against Microsoft over changes to Java.
1998
Sun’s Jini technology introduced, which enables all kinds of devices to connect to the network – instantly Solaris 7 operating environment released.
America Online acquires Netscape; Sun and AOL to accelerate the growth of e-commerce and develop next-generation Internet devices in a three-year alliance.
Java 2 software introduced.
Sun succeeds in Microsoft lawsuit, forcing Microsoft to make changes.
Planets corporate structure demolished and replaced with conventional divisions.
1999
With offices in 150 countries, Sun is a $9 billion company supporting more than a million systems worldwide.
More than 900,000 programmers are developing Java applications.
Over half the medium to large companies worldwide are using Java technology.
1. Start-Up
SUN (Stanford University Network) Microsystems was first described in a 6-page business plan put together in early-1982 by two of the company’s founders:
Vinod Khosla – an Indian born engineering graduate who had moved to the United States in the late-1970s to study more and hopefully start his own company.
