Vinod Khosla is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He then co-founded Sun Microsystems. He was the first CEO and chairman of the company. He is also the founder of the firm Khosla Ventures, which he established in 2004. Khosla ranks among the richest Americans and he is one of the most influential people in the Silicon Valley.
Vinod Khosla played a key role in initiating and assisting multimedia, video games, semiconductors, computer networking and internet software start-up companies.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System, VirtualBox, and SPARC microprocessors.
While starting out as a startup, Sun Microsystems quite a few problems or challenges such as, the approach towards the style of computing was completely new than what was already existing in the market. Main counterparts such HP, Dell, IBM were in the top. But in the hindsight, Sun Microsystems cherished in all ways of introducing the open system computing and made a major leap forth.
While other manufactureres are protected proprietaries, stand-alone architectures, Sun Microsystems focused on taking companies into the network age. As a result, it has become the dot in. com, providing systems and software with the scalability and reliability needed to drive the electronic marketplace.
In 2010, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, a leading provider of database management systems. All of the computing environments are now taken over by the Oracle conglomerate and the development its subsidiaries such the Java Programming language, Virtualization entity: Virtual Box is very passionately being done till date.
Vinod
Khosla
is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He then co-founded
Sun
Microsystems. He was the
first
CEO and chairman of the
company
.
He
is
also
the founder of the firm
Khosla
Ventures, which he established in 2004.
Khosla
ranks among the richest
Americans and
he is one of the most influential
people
in the Silicon Valley.
Vinod
Khosla
played a key role in initiating and assisting multimedia, video games, semiconductors, computer networking and internet software
start
-up
companies
.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American technology
company
that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the
Solaris
operating
system
,
ZFS
, the Network File
System
,
VirtualBox
, and SPARC microprocessors.
While starting out as a startup,
Sun
Microsystems quite a few problems or challenges such as, the approach towards the style of computing was completely
new
than what was already existing in the market. Main counterparts such HP, Dell, IBM were in the top.
But
in the hindsight,
Sun
Microsystems cherished in
all ways
of introducing the open
system
computing and made a major leap forth.
While other
manufactureres
are protected
proprietaries, stand-alone architectures,
Sun
Microsystems focused on taking
companies
into the network age.
As a result
, it has become the dot in. com, providing
systems
and software with the scalability and reliability needed to drive the electronic marketplace.
In 2010,
Sun
Microsystems
was acquired
by Oracle, a leading provider of database management
systems
.
All of the
computing environments are
now
taken over by the Oracle conglomerate and the development its subsidiaries such the Java Programming language, Virtualization entity: Virtual Box is
very
passionately
being done
till date.