Sun Microsystems is a leading maker of UNIX-based, number-crunching workstation computers, storage devices, and servers for powering corporate computer networks and Web sites. The company is the largest to make computers that use its own chips, SPARC, and operating systems, Solaris. Sun's most talked-about product may be Java, a programming language intended to create software that can run unchanged on any kind of computer. Its Jini technology enables electronic devices to communicate with each other and over networks. Sun sells to customers in the telecommunications, financial, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing, and education markets. Since the company's inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer-- has propelled Sun Microsystems to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software, and services that power the Net and allow enterprises worldwide to take their businesses to the nth.