Andy
will
focus his time with Sun on technology development and ongoing systems
projects to help drive new
product architectures, including X64 servers and storage servers, and
will continue to work on key strategic initiatives such as HPC. Andy
has made a career of entrepreneurial ventures, and we look forward to
his continued involvement with Sun as his passion for innovation has
helped to pioneer some of the world's leading technologies.
"I
am very proud of all the accomplishments we have achieved as a
systems team, including the Sun Fire X4000 family of X64 servers, the
Sun Constellation System, the Sun Fire storage servers and Flash
Storage, and Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24, and I look forward to many
more over the coming years," said Andy Bechtolsheim, Systems
Group, Sun Microsystems.
The Official Site for Breaking News and the Latest Information from Sun On The Record
Thursday Oct 23, 2008
There
have been many inaccurate articles published regarding the status of
Sun co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun can confirm that Andy will
remain with the Company as an essential product architect as part of
the Sun Systems group; however
he will be working with Sun in a reduced capacity as a result of his
being named Chief
Development Officer of Arista Networks, a start-up company he
founded.
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