Innovation + Responsibility

Fortune's Most Admired Companies list for 2008 just came out and Sun made it this year! For the last couple of years we were listed as a "contender" - that means that we were ranked below #6 in our industry and so we were not considered to be ranked on the full list.  But this year we made it!  We are officially "Admired."

We rank #5 in the "Computers" category with a score of 6.39.  I'm not totally clear on the scoring, but Apple, which was ranked #1 in our industry (and overall), scored 7.42.  Now, I don't entirely understand that because Google, ranked 4th overall and second in their industry, had a score of 8.07 (and General Electric, which was 3rd overall, scored 7.85. Go figure). I'll leave the math to someone else and instead be happy that Sun made it onto the list this year and celebrate our continued progress in the marketplace of ideas.

Sun ranked #2 in our industry for "innovation" (behind Apple) and #3 for social responsibility (behind IBM and Xerox).  There are a few areas we didn't rank so high - namely around our financial performance. So hopefully as that continues to improve, so will our place on this list!

For more details about Sun's ranking, go here.

For more about the overall list, go here.