Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc, Mountain View, CA, http://www.sun.com is a major manufacturer of Unix-based workstations and servers. In 1981, Bavarian-born Andreas Bechtolsheim was licensing rights to a computer he designed. Named Sun for Stanford University Network and using off-the-shelf parts, it was an affordable workstation for engineers and scientists. In that year, he met Vinod Khosla, a native of India, who convinced him to form a company and expand. Khosla, Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNeally, all Stanford MBAs, founded Sun in 1982.