High Noon (Review and Analysis of Southwick's Book)

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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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• Language: English
• Publisher: Business Book Summaries
• Release date: Feb 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9782806246608

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Book Presentation High Noon by Karen Southwick

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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

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.

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