Innovation + Responsibility

Today marks another milestone in Sun's progress towards becoming a more responsible, sustainable company - the "publication" of our fiscal 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. Ever striving for increased eco responsibility (and recognizing that the medium is the message), the full report is exclusively Web-based. There is a 12-page summary report that you can download as a PDF from the site.

Overall, I am really proud of this report - you wouldn't believe the teamwork that went into making it happen. Hundreds - literally - of people participated (Here goes my Academy Awards listing of gratitude):

• *Sun's incredible content experts
• *The amazing Sun employees Kevin Hughes and Terri Bedel, without whom you would not be reading a report because it wouldn't look or sound good enough to release to the public!
• *The weirdly talented and flexible design team at Celery
• *Those cheeky Brits at Context who helped us turn raw content into a CSR report (and sent me flowers on my birthday!)
• *Sun's ridiculously hardworking Web team
• *Ceres and our external stakeholder team
• *Sun's marketing, PR and employee communications teams who are making sure that the word gets out and people read this thing
• *Dave Douglas and Ingrid Van Den Hoogen - each of them is so personally and professionally committed to Sun excelling in CSR the way we excel in technology that we are sure to succeed with their leadership
  
• *Sun executives who value CSR (and CSR reporting) enough to give it attention and resources (and their staffpeople who made sure they reviewed it and provided their feedback in a timely manner!)
• *Sun's Employee CSR Advisory Board members who provided great feedback at crucial points along the way
• *The Eco Responsibility team (of which I am a proud yet humble member)
• *My generous and gentle co-workers who supported me through a really difficult time just as the reporting effort was ramping up

I'll let the report speak for itself.

I tried to get a feature that allowed people to post comments right in the report, but we couldn't make it happen this time. Maybe we'll be able to do it next year. In the meantime, go ahead and read it and tell me what you think.