Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun chief executive and fellow co-founder Scott McNealy greeted...
Kealia is a privately held company based in Palo Alto that was co-founded and led by Andy Bechtolsheim. It is great to have Andy [Bechtolsheim] back home at Sun," said McNealy. More importantly it will also bring back Bechtolsheim, a well-known...
Nat Friedman, the vice-president of Linux desktop engineering at Novell who was a co-founder of Ximian, said: "People want to tell a David and Goliath story, but we're telling a much more targeted story.
Other returned execs at Sun include co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, now a top designer of the "Galaxy" line of x86 servers; chief financial officer Mike Lehman, who came out of retirement; Tom Goguen, the vice president of operating platforms...
Acorn's co-founder, Andy Hopper was appointed Commander of the British Empire for services to the computer industry in the New Year's honours list. He was co-founder of Acorn Computers, set up in Cambridge in 1978 and played a crucial role in the...
For example, Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun's top x86 server designer, made an appearance at the Intel Developer Forum in September. The first servers from the partnership will begin arriving soon - in the first half of 2007 - and Sun will also sell Xeon...